Thursday, January 31, 2013

I discovered Zoe Naumen

Fight Party 2 , 2004

Burning Scooter , 2004

26th & Magnolia , 2004

Plan 9, Gilman St , 2003



Sunday, January 27, 2013

Stream Following Rt. 83 South, York
from the series "Altered Landscapes - Southeastern Pennsylvania"
by Christopher Moss
Untitled , York PA 2013
from the series " Altered Landscapes - Southeastern Pennsylvania"
by Christopher Moss
Side Street following Rt. 83 York
from the series "Altered Landscapes - Southeastern Pennsylvania"
by Christopher Moss
 


Thursday, January 24, 2013

On Bill Owens


"Owens’ photographs belong to an American aesthetic tradition of art that explores the intersection of everyday life and theatricality. Like the paintings of Edward Hopper, the photographs of Walker Evans and Diane Arbus, and the short stories of John Cheever and Raymond Carver, Owens’ photographs find unexpected beauty and mystery within the American vernacular. This collision between normality and strangeness transforms the American landscape into a place of wonder and anxiety."

"Owens is among the generation of photographers, including Robert Adams, William Eggleston, Steven Shore, and Joel Sternfeld, who used the tradition of documentary photography to explore the complexities and contradictions of the American landscape. To varying degrees, they used an objective style of photography in an effort to locate a perfect tension between banality and beauty, domesticity and nature, criticism and admiration."

Written by Gregory Crewdson in American Suburban X
http://www.americansuburbx.com/2010/09/bill-owens-leisure-particular-kind-of.html

Wednesday, January 16, 2013

Industrial Park, York Pennsylvania 2013
from the series "Altered Landscapes, Southeastern Pennsylvania"
by Christopher Moss

Tuesday, January 15, 2013

Naked Lunch, William S. Burroughs

    "Rock and Roll adolescent hoodlums storm the streets of all nations. They rush into the Louvre and throw acid on the Mona Lisa's face. They open zoo's, insane asylums, prisons, burst water mains with air hammers, chop the floor out of passenger plane lavatories, shoot out lighthouse's , file elevator cables to one thin wire, turn sewers into water supply, throw sharks and sting rays, electric eels and candiru into swimming pools .......(Candiru, look it up...) in nautical costumes ram the Queen Mary full speed into New York Harbor, play chicken with passenger planes and buses, rush into hospitals in white coats carrying saws and axes and scalpels 3 feet long, throw paralytics out of iron lungs, administer injections with bicycle pumps ..... and they shit on the floor of the United Nations and wipe their ass with treaties, pacts and alliances."

The Classics. Robert Adams. New Topographics

New Topographics Mobile Homes, Jefferson County, Colorado, 1973, copyright Robert Adams.