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"The idea I had of using conservation methods as my language helped me step up to the plate and work with a subject matter that had been explored a lot, and well. While I felt a little nervous about photographing in a similar vein, I also felt there was something more that needed to be said"
(Sims, Christopher. "Interview with Steven B. Smith." Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Aug. 2005. Web. 28 Sept. 2010. .)
Biography
"Steven B. Smith is a photographer whose work chronicles the transition of the Western landscape into suburbia. For this work he was awarded the First Book Prize for Photography by the Honickman Foundation and the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. His book The Weather and a Place to Live: Photographs of the Suburban West was published by Duke University Press (2005). He has received Guggenheim and Aaron Siskind Fellowships. His work has been widely exhibited and can be found in many public collections, including the Museum of Modern Art and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Smith received his BFA from Utah State University and his MFA from the Yale School of Art. He has taught photography at Yale and Brown University and currently lives in Barrington, RI, where he teaches in the photography department at Rhode Island School of Design."
(Sims, Christopher. "Interview with Steven B. Smith." Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. Aug. 2005. Web. 28 Sept. 2010. .)
Unfortunately I was unable to find anything about Smith's "Close to Nature" which these photographs are from. I know that from the title of the series that he is trying to get people closer to nature. Through the lines and paints on the interiors of the buildings it replicates nature. I like the emptiness and bareness of the interiors. Unlike my own photographs these photographs speak to me in somewhat the same way. Where is all the stuff? Is someone going to live there?, etc.
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