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May 27, 2005
Interesting photo collection, courtesy of Matt over at Long Sunday who linked to wood s lot.
Is it just a picturing? I reckon it's more an interpretation of the 1930s than a mirroring of what is.
Ansel Adams, Boulder Dam, 1942
The dam is snugley tucked into nature so that it becomes a part of nature. What is not represented is the effects the dam has on the environment, or the way the dam is an imposition or domination of nature by an instrumental reason. In short, there is no critique of modernity.
Dorethea Lange, White Angel Breadline, 1933
Modernity was transformed and presupposed by the American New Deal as a governmental response to the horrors of the Great Depression.You can understand the need for the liberal state to intervene in public works (dams) to get economic growth going so as to get people into work.
Pictures are interpretations of human actions, events and situations within a specific history.
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