Images of Intolerable Beauty

Chris Jordan is my new photographic hero. You absolutely must visit the link and see his work. It is incredibly powerful. His images are scenes depicting the staggering cost of American consumerism. An excerpt, written by the artist, from his website:

"Exploring around our country’s shipping ports and industrial yards, where the accumulated detritus of our consumption is exposed to view like eroded layers in the Grand Canyon, I find evidence of a slow-motion apocalypse in progress. I am appalled by these scenes, and yet also drawn into them with awe and fascination. The immense scale of our consumption can appear desolate, macabre, oddly comical and ironic, and even darkly beautiful; for me its consistent feature is a staggering complexity."

This is an appearance with Stephen Colbert. (Added as a link, because I'm too stupid to figure out what's going wrong when I try to embed this fucker.)

(Thanks, Dad, for the heads up on Chris's site.)

Comments

[Mimi]

WOW!!! This guy rocks!! I checked out his website and was in awe of his pics, they are great and speak loudly. Thanks for sharing....Luv u Mimi