March 27, 2011

Charles Pratt

Lately I have been looking at a lot of black and white photographs. I don't know what is drawing me to them but I'm glad it is. I'm sitting in the library and went to the oversized book section. I just kept pulling books off the shelf. I must have pulled four off before I found The Edge of The City by Charles Pratt. A few of the books were in black and white but didn't hold my attention. The others just didn't interest me at all. 


"This is an attempt to characterize a place that is fast vanishing-the edge of the city."
That is the first line of this book. I liked it. I also thought it went well with this picture although this isn't the picture associated with it. The wires seem to represent a much more complicated time and the quickly changing world where cities and suburbs are merging together.

Image from Robert Man Gallery

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