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Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait

Chris Jordan: Running the Numbers: An American Self-Portrait
Library Shelf Location 18.JORD
Publication Date
Description Statistics can be daunting and dry: 1,000,000 trees cut down every year; 9,000,000 American children without health insurance; 2,000,000 plastic bottles used every five minutes; 2,300,000 adults incarcerated in U.S. prisons. Renowned photographer Chris Jordan brings these staggering numbers to life in manipulated digital photographs that are at once alluring and shocking. A landscape of toothpicks, each representing a felled tree, stretches into the horizon; a looping maze of plastic cups reveal how many are used each day on airplane flights; fashioned from soda cans, a replica of a Seurat masterpiece becomes a lesson in waste; and thousands of Barbie dolls-representing the number of breast augmentations performed each year-combine to depict a woman's torso. Filled with astonishing photographs of surprising beauty, this book, manufactured from recycled materials, helps us grasp visually the potential consequences of our culture of waste.
ISBN 9780975566251
Quantity 1
Pages 112; 30.2 x 25.4 x 1.8 cm
Authors Chris Bruce, Paul Hawken, Lucy Lippard
Format Hardback
Publisher Prestel Publishing, New York
Related Artist Chris Jordan
Category Photography
Artist's Nationality American (USA)
Language English

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