[Reader-list] A Look at American Consumption...

[lalitha kamath]

and the Indian middle classes?

Check out Chris Jordan's Running the Numbers


							
            An American Self-Portrait						 
 http://www.chrisjordan.com/  

This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the
austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of
something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of
paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption)
and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might
have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find
daily in articles and books. Statistics tend to feel abstract and
anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of
3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million
Americans in prison, or $12.5 million spent every hour on the Iraq war.
This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our
society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands
of smaller photographs.



 My only caveat about this series is that the prints must be seen
in person to be experienced the way they are intended. As with any
large artwork, their scale carries a vital part of their substance
which is lost in these little web images. Hopefully the JPEGs displayed
here might be enough to arouse your curiosity to attend an exhibition,
or to arrange one if you are in a position to do so. The series is
still in its early stages, and new images will be posted as they are
completed, so please stay tuned.



                                                                           ~cj, January 2007
  
     
  
  
 



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