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December 18, 2010
In this interview with Amy Stein on the latter's blog Jo Ann Walters says that it began:
by driving around in the bad neighborhoods, photographing vacant lots, railroad lines, burned-out buildings. These are the parts of my hometown that show the deep scars of industrialism. I was looking for something that nobody else wanted anymore, something anonymous, something forgotten.
Jo Ann Walters, Christmas Lights at the Refinery, from the series Dog Town, Illinois, 2010
Latter in the interview she mentions that her work is informed by a combination of Eggleston and Atget centred on a concern for beauty that is differentiated from sentimentality.
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