Bastardization in color
As much as this scene begs to be displayed in traditional monochrome New topographics style it has so much more to offer in color.
The nuances of hues across the water and grass present themselves nicely in color as does the mist of the fountain.
But her beauty is only skin deep.......
As I had previously noted; humanity has bastardized nature by replacing streams with stagnant industrial ditches, waterfalls with fountains, and sad bronze statues where once herds of elk roamed.
The harder the landscape architects try to recreate nature in their 'functional public parks' the more they demonstrate the degree of change for natural wilderness.
New Topographic artists "primarily concerned with relationships of land to culture and the particularities of social existence"
"In reality there are no "before" pictures when photographing landscape. Only an endless sequence of "afters". book New topographics - photographs of a Man altered landscape. 1975 - page 41.
In example; this was an open midwest prairie. Then a working farm in the 1800's. now a sprawling industrial park. And someday as Chicagoland expands into the the suburbs the land will again be transformed into a row of high-rise apartments.
And yes, that's an airplane attesting to our effects upon the skies as well. No, contrails are not beautiful !!!!!
Bastardization in color
As much as this scene begs to be displayed in traditional monochrome New topographics style it has so much more to offer in color.
The nuances of hues across the water and grass present themselves nicely in color as does the mist of the fountain.
But her beauty is only skin deep.......
As I had previously noted; humanity has bastardized nature by replacing streams with stagnant industrial ditches, waterfalls with fountains, and sad bronze statues where once herds of elk roamed.
The harder the landscape architects try to recreate nature in their 'functional public parks' the more they demonstrate the degree of change for natural wilderness.
New Topographic artists "primarily concerned with relationships of land to culture and the particularities of social existence"
"In reality there are no "before" pictures when photographing landscape. Only an endless sequence of "afters". book New topographics - photographs of a Man altered landscape. 1975 - page 41.
In example; this was an open midwest prairie. Then a working farm in the 1800's. now a sprawling industrial park. And someday as Chicagoland expands into the the suburbs the land will again be transformed into a row of high-rise apartments.
And yes, that's an airplane attesting to our effects upon the skies as well. No, contrails are not beautiful !!!!!