A Web Awash in Liquor Ads, Promoting Moderation
by Stuart Elliott
Published: March 8, 2009
The New York Times
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Tuesday, March 10, 2009
x005 . Andrew Bush
Andrew Bush
Prop Portraits 1999-2000
"Bush has worked in a variety of formats, subjects, and mediums for more than twenty years with a concentration on the theme of identity as defined by possessions."
"The Prop Portraits series, shown in 2000, was shot with his usual large format camera in the flea markets of Los Angeles. Produced as large-scale Epson color prints, his subjects were selected from the market crowd and shot posed before a semitransparent scrim holding the objects they selected. These people are thereby situated temporarily in a private space, their purchases or props becoming a trophy of their identity and passage through life."
Prop Portraits 1999-2000
"Bush has worked in a variety of formats, subjects, and mediums for more than twenty years with a concentration on the theme of identity as defined by possessions."
"The Prop Portraits series, shown in 2000, was shot with his usual large format camera in the flea markets of Los Angeles. Produced as large-scale Epson color prints, his subjects were selected from the market crowd and shot posed before a semitransparent scrim holding the objects they selected. These people are thereby situated temporarily in a private space, their purchases or props becoming a trophy of their identity and passage through life."
pigment prints on Somerset paper
16 x 11" editions of 20
45 x 34" editions of 6
x004 . Brian Ulrich
Copia
Brian Ulrich
COPIA
Plenty, a plentiful supply: now chiefly in L. phrase copia verborum abundance of words, a copious vocabulary. Cf. COPY n. 1c.
I. a. Plenty, abundance, a copious quantity.
b. Fullness, plentitude. Obs.
c. esp. of language: Copiousness, abundance, fullness, richness.
copy of words : = L. copia verborum. Obs.
II. A transcript of reproduction of an original.
"In 2001 citizens were encouraged to take to the malls to boost the U.S. economy through shopping, thereby equating consumerism with patriotism. The Copia project, a direct response to that advice, is a long-term photographic examination of the peculiarities and complexities of the consumer-dominated culture in which we live. Through large scale photographs taken within both the big-box retail stores and the thrift shops that house our recycled goods, Copia explores not only the everyday activities of shopping, but the economic, cultural, social, and political implications of commercialism and the roles we play in self-destruction, over-consumption, and as targets of marketing and advertising. By scrutinizing these rituals and their environments, I hope that viewers will evaluate the increasing complexities of the modern world and their own role within it."
"Copia is composed of several chapters, currently Retail, Thrift, and Backrooms. These further document notions of social class, excess, and corporate ideologies. By combining photographs taken candidly with a medium-format film camera outfitted with a waist-level viewfinder, and studied compositions taken with a large format camera in thrift shops, I can capture lost excitement and overwhelmed, subsumed moments. The large-scale prints allow the viewer to stop and notice with a distanced perspective familiar places and things. Over time these images take on new meaning, ones anthropological and historical of an affluent society at the dawn of the 21st century. What we buy and what we use up becomes the evidence of our experience of this time."
Brian Ulrich
COPIA
Plenty, a plentiful supply: now chiefly in L. phrase copia verborum abundance of words, a copious vocabulary. Cf. COPY n. 1c.
I. a. Plenty, abundance, a copious quantity.
b. Fullness, plentitude. Obs.
c. esp. of language: Copiousness, abundance, fullness, richness.
copy of words : = L. copia verborum. Obs.
II. A transcript of reproduction of an original.
"In 2001 citizens were encouraged to take to the malls to boost the U.S. economy through shopping, thereby equating consumerism with patriotism. The Copia project, a direct response to that advice, is a long-term photographic examination of the peculiarities and complexities of the consumer-dominated culture in which we live. Through large scale photographs taken within both the big-box retail stores and the thrift shops that house our recycled goods, Copia explores not only the everyday activities of shopping, but the economic, cultural, social, and political implications of commercialism and the roles we play in self-destruction, over-consumption, and as targets of marketing and advertising. By scrutinizing these rituals and their environments, I hope that viewers will evaluate the increasing complexities of the modern world and their own role within it."
"Copia is composed of several chapters, currently Retail, Thrift, and Backrooms. These further document notions of social class, excess, and corporate ideologies. By combining photographs taken candidly with a medium-format film camera outfitted with a waist-level viewfinder, and studied compositions taken with a large format camera in thrift shops, I can capture lost excitement and overwhelmed, subsumed moments. The large-scale prints allow the viewer to stop and notice with a distanced perspective familiar places and things. Over time these images take on new meaning, ones anthropological and historical of an affluent society at the dawn of the 21st century. What we buy and what we use up becomes the evidence of our experience of this time."
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