Nov 17, 2008
Portraits of American mass consumption, by Chris Jordan. This is a bunch of cell phone chargers, but with a little imagination, it’s part of a giant organism, or maybe a subsection of a universe. This looks like it was randomly generated, or caught listening to a radio tuned to a dead channel or something, but it’s a pile of cigarette butts. In a roundup of various bloggers and photographers answering the question, “what makes a photo good?”, Jordan wrote:
To me a great photograph is one that works on several different levels, offering something new again and again, like a good piece of music. Visually it has a particular kind of intricacy or vividness, or an extraordinarily complex and beautiful tonal scale. Intellectually and emotionally it conveys an unexpectedly rich perspective that expands my consciousness one way or another; a viewpoint that moves me every time I see the image, even after many viewings.
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