Today you will be writing about a photograph by artist Lori Nix. This image is from her series titled The City.
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Before you write, read the artist statement: I consider myself a faux-landscape photographer. I build meticulously detailed model environments and then photograph the results. Through the photographic process, the fictional scene is transformed into a surreal space, where scale, perspective, and the document of the photograph create a tension between the material reality of the scene and the impossibility of the depicted narrative. In this space, between evidence and plot, the imagination of the viewer is unlocked, engaged, and provoked. I want my scenes to convey rich, complex, detailed, and, ultimately, open-ended narratives. Several common themes prevail throughout my work: the constructed photograph, the landscape in turmoil, and danger married to humor. I present these elements as the raw materials of stories with messages, but without conclusions. The photographs I create do not reflect the tradition of the grand idyllic landscape. Rather than showing the beautiful or heroic vista, I look to the darker corners of life. I am interested in the forces of entropy, in the ruins left in the wake of human pretense of grandeur. My scenes are usually devoid of people, and this emptiness becomes an important element. In this way, the impact of civilization is shown by what remains in the absence of humans. Evidence of humans may still be visible, but the cause for their absence is left unclear, allowing the viewer to complete the narrative. In my current series The City, I focus on the ruins of urban landscapes. I have chosen the spaces that celebrate modern culture, knowledge, and innovation: the theater, the museum, and the library. Here the monuments of civilization and material culture are abandoned, in a state of decay and ruin, with natural elements such as plants, insects, and animals beginning to repopulate the spaces. This idea of paradise lost, or the natural world reclaiming itself, becomes more forceful as we face greater environmental challenges in the world around us.
Claire Williams
2/9/2018 12:39:20 pm
This image is of an old subway car that is empty. The floor is covered with mounds of sand, and the doors are open. You can also see the city’s tall buildings in the background. Everything inside is rusty, darty, and just old looking. The main colors are browns, orange, red, and tan. Although it depicts a dark and old subway car, there is still lighting that is well spread out around the whole image to keep it at a high quality.
elizabeth wray
2/9/2018 12:40:51 pm
Lori Nix and Kathleen Gerber were two women that were partners. Lori was the photographer and Kathleen was the “set maker”. For all of there images, they used different small items to create small versions of large things. Her series is called The City, where it is a future tense of when the human race was wiped out by some storm. This image is called the subway and was shot in 2012.
Payton Down
2/9/2018 12:40:57 pm
This is an image of a substation diorama. The colors make it look rusty and as if its been left there for a while. The colors being used are rusty reds, oranges and tan. This might help portray the thought of the substation being left in the dust. This is a studio set-up and is made with the artist hands. The studio set up makes it look like it is bright and sunny out. You can see some of the shadows in the subway. There are no people in the photo, the main subject is the train. There is no action happening in the photo but it does tell its own story.
Annie Mosis
2/9/2018 12:43:09 pm
In this image conveys an abandoned subway. In the subway is sand and some grass. All of the subway is rusty and the space is empty. The image looks apocalyptic in its emptyness.In this image it is using warm tones with the sand and the chairs that are yellow and orange.In this image the lighting is artificial lighting,the lighting is even and causes some shadows but not very much. In this image there are no people but their is some building tin the background. There's nothing going on in the image just empty.
Matthew Weiss
2/9/2018 12:45:23 pm
This image is of a model of a subway train, that has been left and abandoned for a long amount of time. It was made to look, worn down, old, and as if nature has began to come back in the image, as seen with the grasses that grow from the sand covering the ground. Between the rusting, metal walls of the train and the sand covering the floor, this image is made to look old. The grass, the sand, and the rust, the image looks like it was left for entropy to run its course over many years.
Brandon Collins
2/9/2018 12:45:48 pm
The image is of a subway car that is rusted, with sand on the floor and the view of a city skyline in the distance. The colors that are being used are bright colors but it isn't afraid to use some dark shadows to complement the bright colors. The image is using bright colors to show how it was before and the dark shadows to show the decay.The light is artificial from a lamp to make it look like the outside is bright and hot. The objects in the image are plants that grew from the sand, a rusted safety sign, orange and yellow chairs with different objects on them, and the poles and rails to hold on to when standing on a subway car are there.What is taking place in the image is a post apocalyptic scene where something happened to mankind and shows how all the structures survived and how nature is slowly taking over in some parts.
naty orquin
2/9/2018 12:50:09 pm
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Jordan Bell
2/9/2018 01:18:36 pm
This is a photograph of a subway by Lori Nix from her The City series. For this image, the artists went into extreme detail in making the photograph. The metal walls of the subway are rusted and there are reminisce of words written on a whiteboard. The orange chairs and the floor are covered in sand and growing weeds. The sand stretched out like a blanket, reaching the city. This image uses predominantly earthy colors. Shades of reds, yellows, and oranges provide a contrast from the blues, whites, and silvers used in the rest of the photo. This photo was taken in a studio setup with the sun looking as if it had just risen. The only objects in this image are the buildings of the city in background and the subway.
Kylie Bruehler
2/9/2018 07:44:03 pm
This is an image by a photographer named Lori Nix. The photographer did build the set for this image rather than going to photograph something that already exists. This image does have a very animated look to it as it looks hyperreal, like someone has laminated it. The hyperreality of this image is what makes it so different than most. The set of the image also looks very worn out, which must have been done purposely to create a different feeling by the image and help the image to tell a specific story. 2/11/2018 04:42:55 pm
This image depicts an abandoned train car that is situated on a beach. The train car is partially buried underneath the sand and is rusty and unused. However, the seats in the car have held their bright colors. In the background, a faint city skyline is visible. The colors present in this photo are mostly metallic and rusty. However, there are some little things in the photo that hold color, such as the seats in the train. The lighting in the photo is only the light of the sun. There are no people in the image, and there have been no items placed in the image. However, there are faintly visible buildings in the background. There is nothing in particular happening in the image, giving it a peaceful appearance.
Luke Prado
2/12/2018 11:00:49 am
This is an image of the inside of an abandoned subway in a desert. There is a city in the background, though it does not appear to be barren. The subway is very deteriorated, with sand covering the ground and some of the seats. The walls and roof are all very rusted, and parts of them are covered in sheet metal. However, the seats still retain most of their color, and seem to stand out against the bleak sands.
Gilly Thompson
2/12/2018 11:18:10 am
This image is of an abandoned subway, or train. The subway appears to have just stopped or had been left in the middle of its route. The subway is filled with sand and weeds, the metal walls of it are rusted and a sign on the left side, saying “Take a break from life” is extremely faded. The seats in the subway are bright colors , oranges yellows, and pinks. The subway sliding doors are open and the city and buildings are in the far distance. The windows on the subway look dusty and dirty. The lighting is perfect in this photo. Because they used the correct entry way of lighting , which was having the lighting come in through the subway sliding doors. In this image you can see many details. The detail in the shadows and lighting and the details regarding all the grains of sand and details of rust. Comments are closed.
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