Folio Watch: Justin James Reed
Philadelphia photographer documents the thin line between commercial and residential in his series: 'New Cities'
By Venus Zine Staff
Published: September 3rd, 2007 | 3:00pm
"The boundaries between commercial, residential, and business architecture is becoming increasingly less apparent. Reiterating the formalism of this style of building by approaching the subject in a very forward, centered way, the aesthetic relationship between these forms of architecture becomes clear."
"However as the building increases, not only in scale, but also in numbers, curious qualities begin to reveal themselves. They become a quiet commentary on our current relationship with the landscape, highlighting their fictitiousness, lavishness and role as a conceptual destination. This work is an exploration of the homogeneous communities that we are surrounding ourselves with, and the featureless environments that are becoming our new cities."
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Issue #44
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