This was an exhibition by Mitch Epstein, which I was in June. It was a series of trees, similar to Eugene Atget's work with trees in Paris taken at the start of the 20th Century. It was portrait-style placement of trees in New York and showed the diversity of the city - what is behind the trees and who is there. It showed the huge amount of urban development. There were texts about the roles of the trees and how necessary they are for human life.
The work was presented as fairly large prints, 3 large ones greet you as you enter. They do, however, lack some contrast and some are quite grey and lifeless depending on the subject.
As you go through and look at locations familiar from TV, it gives a different insight into each neighbourhood, by making us focus on the trees rather than people to depict it.
The work was presented as fairly large prints, 3 large ones greet you as you enter. They do, however, lack some contrast and some are quite grey and lifeless depending on the subject.
As you go through and look at locations familiar from TV, it gives a different insight into each neighbourhood, by making us focus on the trees rather than people to depict it.
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