The Fall
Photographer Richard Mosse, interviewed here on BLDGBLOG earlier this year, has a show opening up tonight in New York City: The Fall.
[Image: Richard Mosse, "Grand Voyager Sunni Triangle" (2009), courtesy of the Jack Shainman Gallery].
For the past year, Mosse has been traveling the world on a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship, documenting distant sites of aviation wreckage, war ruins, and more. From Iraqi battlefields and ruined palaces to bullet-riddled trucks and disaster-preparation test-landscapes, his new exhibition, The Fall, "is a photographic survey of our historic unconscious," the gallery explains.
[Image: Richard Mosse, "C-47 Alberta" (2009), courtesy of the Jack Shainman Gallery].
[Image: Richard Mosse, "Grand Voyager Sunni Triangle" (2009), courtesy of the Jack Shainman Gallery].For the past year, Mosse has been traveling the world on a Leonore Annenberg Fellowship, documenting distant sites of aviation wreckage, war ruins, and more. From Iraqi battlefields and ruined palaces to bullet-riddled trucks and disaster-preparation test-landscapes, his new exhibition, The Fall, "is a photographic survey of our historic unconscious," the gallery explains.
- Mosse travelled to intensely remote locations, from the Patagonian Andes to the Yukon Territories, and worked as an embed with the US military to produce work for this exhibition. The Fall is a rescue mission to try to locate our blasted sense of landscape and archeology, and reclaim the primeval waste for our imagination. Produced to an epic scale, each of the photographs in The Fall is a history painting for our times.
[Image: Richard Mosse, "C-47 Alberta" (2009), courtesy of the Jack Shainman Gallery].
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Great pictures, I wish I can see that in real life. By the way I love your blog.
Those eerie pictures of bullet sprayed destroyed cars are disturbing. I can't help but think what the people inside would have looked like afterwards.
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