Meeting Interesting Photographers
It is always a good day when you meet another photographer who makes interesting work. On Friday I had the opportunity to meet Alex Fradkin, a Columbia College Grad who's work I was unfamiliar with. The images below are from his "Bunkers: Ruins of War in a New American Landscape" project. These unused bunkers sit along the San Francisco coastline. They were constructed and have been updated over the corse of American history to be used against enemies that never actually materialized on American soil. Of the photographs, Fradkin says:
"Facing the endless horizon, each generation since the conquest of the West has waited in apprehension for the enemy that never came. Today, more than ever, the bunkers are considered ineffectual in this new age of unconventional warfare. The new threat of invasion is the less defensible menace of fear and paranoia. These ruins now inhabit the landscape as silent metaphors of our current national mood."
See more here under the project 1 tab.
"Facing the endless horizon, each generation since the conquest of the West has waited in apprehension for the enemy that never came. Today, more than ever, the bunkers are considered ineffectual in this new age of unconventional warfare. The new threat of invasion is the less defensible menace of fear and paranoia. These ruins now inhabit the landscape as silent metaphors of our current national mood."
See more here under the project 1 tab.
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