The 4th of July

Parking Lot, Manville, Wyoming, July 4, 2014

Parking Lot Dead Ends and The Image as Metaphor

There is a lot of talk in certain circles about the image as metaphor, but the story behind these images work as a kind of metaphor for life in itself. I was driving in my car headed home taking the usual way, but I decided to take a different route, so I turned left and found myself lost in one of those giant parking lots, you know the ones which 18 ginormous box stores share. Anyways, I eventually wound up at a dead end. I stopped, got out of the car, and started taking pictures of the tire tracks left behind in the snow. Then I climbed back in the car and finally made it back home a week later...or maybe an hour. There's a metaphor and a moral in that story somewhere, but I think the images do the trick best. Also, I found this helpful...if these images made sounds, they would probably sound like this.

Goletaville-Day 5 pt.1

On the heels of the inspiring words of Mr. Callahan and other Abstract Photographers of the same period, such as Aaron Siskind, day 5 results in an explosion of new found images. 2 locations and 2 parts for this day's ramble about. Another photographer of this era to check out is Frederick Sommer, he is perhaps my favorite.

For this part I decided to switch things up a bit and play around with the square format. I think I could do a whole series on just the ground of parking lots. There's so many abstract compositions that can be made from each one of them.