Portraits: Faces and Profiles of Utility – Photographs from Iowa

Well, in the vein of shameless self promotion, this is an image from a group of photos that I have been working on that to me pose a question about the photographic cliche. Just where does that line fall? I don’t know sometimes – it depends.

Since I’m away from these places now for sometime, the images have become more important to me – perhaps a kind of sentimental transference – who knows.

Village View Farm 1904 [West Central Iowa 2006] by Matt Niebuhr

Untitled [Barn, North elevation, East central Iowa] by Matt Niebuhr

As more time passes, I think these two tap into my own mental “memory image” of what I picture a barn or crib might look like – iconic might be better word to describe them in my opinion. More like an iconic memory.  More here at www.mattniebuhr.com

…examining the threshold at which ordinary visibility ends and perception begins ….

Progressive [Not]

Uhmmmm.

I prefer actually to eat the wrapping of my already individually wrapped potatoes. Not sure – suppose it could be one of those new edible starch based plastics?

Enough said.

I think the irony to me anyway of coming across this image above must have been more about a post on Soth’s blog: “open and destroy”… Something about the precious nature of packaging… I have to admit the quandary of eating a potato is not the same as the precious quandary I’m certain the photo book – “the last parking space” …by Martin Parr will become.

…examining the threshold at which ordinary visibility ends and perception begins ….