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...decision making is involved; subjects are not stripped from their surrounding chaos, but seen in relation to it. The photographs attempts to bring artistic meaning to the commonplace Gas stations, cars, and telephone booths rather than mountain and desert landscapes are common subjects. The snapshot tries to reflect urban sprawl; if the images seems tawdry and disorganized it is because their subject...
EMMET GOWIN in his family portraits does not look to characterize a specific family, but rather to characterize the sprawl and variety of family life. Figures at both ends of the frame are cut off and those within are arranged haphazardly. Each is involved in his own world, not the photographer's. A baby near the foreground is blurred by motion; most of the others seem lost in contemplation and stare blankly in different directions. Yet there is a unity: the paradoxical combination of wide diversity of attention and easy physical proximity, make the photograph an unmistakeable account...
...headquarters town for the oil companies operating in the area, are a multimillion-dollar 14-story office tower and that symbol of a successful city, a Hilton hotel. A half-hour's drive away is Midland's twin city, Odessa, a blue-collar town built around a sprawl of refineries and oil-well service and supply firms. There the boom is reflected not in the skyline but in the HELP WANTED notices outside the machine shops and the POWDER ROOM signs inside them. Skilled labor is so short-1,500 jobs are currently going begging-that firms...
...gaping hole in the wall that was once the window of her second-story apartment. Next door a few men pray in a gutted mosque, while turbaned workers, faces streaked with grime and dust, take a coffee break at Mohammed's Cafe. At one of the tables that sprawl halfway across the muddy street, Aly Rashid sits drawing honey-flavored tobacco smoke through the long tube of his pipe...
Lamm's victory would not have been possible without a dramatic change in the state's electorate. Over the past few years, Colorado has been invaded by Easterners and Westerners alike, anxious to escape urban blight and sprawl, and, ironically, more concerned than the natives to protect their state's natural beauties. For them, the environment is the overriding issue. A rather traditional booster who looked forward to Colorado's becoming the "energy capital of the world," Vanderhoof, 52, did not get the voters' message until fairly late in the campaign. Then he joined Lamm...