I discovered Zoe Naumen

Fight Party 2 , 2004

Burning Scooter , 2004

26th & Magnolia , 2004

Plan 9, Gilman St , 2003

http://finitefoto.com/zoe-nauman

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

 

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

Industrial Park, York Pennsylvania 2013

from the series "Altered Landscapes, Southeastern Pennsylvania"

by Christopher Moss

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.

Epic Failure....

The Van Buren Boys - Out Tonight

I've been into this band lately....check em out!

Joel Sternfeld - "American Prospects" Review

"It is an unspeakable force, lurking invisibly, powerful, cultural, American.....It is about a country convinced of its independence and freedom, but that when photographed appears chained to a set of principles and dreams powerfully manifested in its architecture and in the lives its people have chosen to lead."

"The subjects of these pictures are varied but the hand of the photographer persists throughout, providing a consistent perspective so that the book never once feels haphazard. That perspective manages to document the weird mixture of tragic boredom, achievement and hope that composes the contemporary American experience. The pictures are shot with a sort of attached indifference, meaning that the subjects, composition, and lighting are all carefully chosen, but a documentary quality establishes distance between viewer and subject. This space allows a feeling of wrongness to come through, one that seems to permeate these photographs, not by direct instigation but through an implicit voyeurism. The wrongness is as apparent as its source is difficult to identify, so that looking at these pictures is similar to watching a David Lynch film."

http://www.americansuburbx.com/2012/12/review-joel-sternfeld-american-prospects-2012.html 

Review by Sergio Leone  

Winter Morning Dew, Rural Housing Development;

 January 2013

16x24

Christopher Moss

I Discovered Rory Mulligan....

From the series "Freddie"

From the series "Cindy Timberwolf"

From the series "To Much Future"

From the series "Cindy Timberwolf"

http://www.rorymulligan.com 

Untitled, from the series Night Work
December 2012
Christopher Moss