One Photographer's painstaking portraits of America

[fractal]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mericas-changing-landscape.html#ixzz2RnYxx6ol

For decades celebrated American photographer Carol Highsmith has captured photographs in all 50 states. Her thousands of pictures showcase the huge variety of U.S. habitats and landscapes.

Her incredible body of work is being kept by the Library of Congress, where it can be inspire and inform future generations.

'What's important to me is to record America during my lifetime so that many, many years from now, we can see what we looked like, so we have a sense of who we are,' Highsmith told CBS News.
'Things are changing for the good and the bad, and so it's important to catch that,' Highsmith told Martha Teichner of CBS. 'Now, do I know what will be important? No, I don't. I'm clueless.'

 

[Grumpy-Fan]

Very nice. Awesome pictures.

 

[thomas998]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...mericas-changing-landscape.html#ixzz2RnYxx6ol

For decades celebrated American photographer Carol Highsmith has captured photographs in all 50 states. Her thousands of pictures showcase the huge variety of U.S. habitats and landscapes.

Her incredible body of work is being kept by the Library of Congress, where it can be inspire and inform future generations.

'What's important to me is to record America during my lifetime so that many, many years from now, we can see what we looked like, so we have a sense of who we are,' Highsmith told CBS News.
'Things are changing for the good and the bad, and so it's important to catch that,' Highsmith told Martha Teichner of CBS. 'Now, do I know what will be important? No, I don't. I'm clueless.'

Sorry but I see it as yet another huge waste of my tax dollars. I want to know how much money are we paying her and the amount of reimbursements for travel expenses that we are forking over. I really see no need to payment of someone to do take photos in a world where everyone and his dog is already taking more photos than ever before.

 

[ddbowdoin]

Sorry but I see it as yet another huge waste of my tax dollars. I want to know how much money are we paying her and the amount of reimbursements for travel expenses that we are forking over. I really see no need to payment of someone to do take photos in a world where everyone and his dog is already taking more photos than ever before.

I'm going to side with you...

I'm someone who at one point was a gallery represented painter and have since shifted my concentration to photography but I don't think it's appropriate for tax dollars to be headed to the fine art world. Her work is great but as an artist we make decisions in life. Look at John Coffer, or Google him.... he basically grew up in Vegas and moved from Vegas to upstate NY in a horse drawn carriage. Along the way we basically taught himself the methods of wet plate photography, mastered it and now makes incredible work. He makes a living teaching small workshops, publishes a manual on the art of wet plate, and does all correspondence over mail. He literally lives off the land where he lives, very little to no modern devices. But my point is he made that conscious decision, we as tax payers shouldn't and we don't foot the bill for his lifestyle. Maybe I am ranting now but it's a sham when artists start taking federal tax monies for the work they do.