States - Photographs by Christopher Griffith (Hardcover)

Fashion photographer Christopher Griffith had nothing less than a radical reinterpretation of American imagery, big machinery, high tech apparatuses, roadside detritus, in mind when he began assembling a crew to travel with him along the sideways and byways of a forgotten America to shoot Avedon-esque fashion, the everyday, utilitarian things found dotting the contemporary landscape. Searching out roadside ditches, abandoned gas stations, industrial parks, highway diner parking lots, small town fire houses, windblown prairies, and military air bases, Griffith and his team constructed huge backdrops around the forlorn subject, creating stark, decontextualized, and magnificent renderings, in detail, of things we see and forget without noticing. Repositing the famous Millerian dictum that attention must be paid,