Chris Jordan
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Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait
This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
An American Self-Portrait
This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 426,000 cell phones retired every day. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
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- Green, Art and Style, Earth and Science, Art
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- Green, Art and Style, Art, Earth and Science, 3 more
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LarzNero
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Totally way cool. You added this in June 2007. It's Feb 2009 and a friend sent it to me. I tried to add it but came across this. Props to finding this great stuff so much earlier than I.
- 4 years ago
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LarzNero
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cwhite
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Definitely helps to put the numbers spouted daily in perspective. I'm gradually learning that I can make a difference by buying the products with less packaging. I'm also cutting down on things like soda and gas for travel/commuting.
- 5 years ago
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cwhite
