Word: photographs
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Alec Soth sees it, the Mississippi River is a body of water bordered by dream states. Five years ago, he set out on the first of a series of trips that evolved into a project he calls "Sleeping by the Mississippi." Traveling mostly by car, he took photographs along the entire length of the river, from the upper reaches near his home in Minneapolis, Minn., to the delta country in Louisiana. He set out, he says, with no agenda other than "to photograph, and to figure it out as I went along...
...COVER: Photograph by Gandee Vasan--Getty Images
...taught us, it’s that as soon as you stick something in a museum, it becomes art. I myself have got a lovely piece sticky-gummed to the wall above my bed. It’s a big map of the Grand Canyon—a satellite photograph with roads and cities superimposed in enhanced colors. It would be completely useless as a navigational tool, but it’s really nice to look at. I guess it’s a cross between abstract and conceptual...
Robin Schuldenfrei, a PhD candidate at the Graduate School of Design and the exhibit’s organizer, placed each chair in front of a large-scale photograph of one of the architects’ buildings. The chairs merge into the background and become part of the scene, providing the illusion of a natural habitat...
Schuldenfrei compares the resulting floating form to Salvador Dali’s surrealism. The Eames backdrop is not a photograph but a plan for a room. The walls, tables, lamps and chairs are all carefully planned elements, demonstrating that architecture is inside and outside, big and small...