This is one of my favorite photos of yours. Long before it was a youth culture magazine or apparel line, the concept of Beautiful Decay was always my favorite Japanese aesthetic: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aesthetics#Wabi-sabi
While some people consider it blight, Wabi-sabi teaches that all systems blossom and decay, and both are to be appreciated. Sure it’s easy for people to celebrate something in its heyday, but it’s much more challenging for people to see the beauty within your pictures of a dilapidated Fleishhacker Pool (for instance).
March 11th, 2010 on 8:23 pm
Gotta be the cookie cutter suburbs that are the real blight as far as my photography is concerned. I live for this stuff.
March 11th, 2010 on 9:08 pm
I like — reminds me of Philly.
March 12th, 2010 on 12:58 pm
this was shot in Baltimore
March 12th, 2010 on 10:22 am
This is one of my favorite photos of yours. Long before it was a youth culture magazine or apparel line, the concept of Beautiful Decay was always my favorite Japanese aesthetic:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_aesthetics#Wabi-sabi
While some people consider it blight, Wabi-sabi teaches that all systems blossom and decay, and both are to be appreciated. Sure it’s easy for people to celebrate something in its heyday, but it’s much more challenging for people to see the beauty within your pictures of a dilapidated Fleishhacker Pool (for instance).
March 12th, 2010 on 12:58 pm
thanks, Jeff! and what a great link. i agree with your second paragraph wholeheartedly.