Sunday, December 13, 2009

Anna Collette's Suburban

Anna Collette's unequivocally titled project Suburban explores the landscape with a similarly deadpan gaze as many of the "New Topographics" photographers. In an article about Collette's work written for Big RED & Shiny, Matthew Gamber states:

"In the photographs these structures are haunting. Why is that? To better fulfill the definition of their purpose, they should have littered the landscape, necessitating the demolition of the neighborhoods of individual houses in the foreground. The fact that the apartment buildings stand isolated and singular testify failure of the death as a rational, constructed solution to a spatial, urban problem. They are monuments to their own failure.

Besides, people don’t like to be seen as spatial, urban problems. Many reject making a home in this type of architecture. Most prefer to be individuals who have the have the luxury of owning individual houses. The American ideal of the individual house takes the form of a truncated box with an obtuse angled, shingle-laden roof."



From Suburban
© Anna Collette



From Suburban
© Anna Collette



From Suburban
© Anna Collette



From Suburban
© Anna Collette



From Suburban
© Anna Collette