美國的攝影師 Chris Jordan 的 Photographic Art!
他利用美國人對不同物品的銷耗量作為他的攝影題材.
這些攝影是提醒我們要重視某一些問題, 例如環保問題, 安全問題, 健康問題等等
那些照片遠看像是平平無奇, 近看可是能嚇大家一跳喔!
CHRIS JORDAN官方網站：
http://www.chrisjordan.com
Running the Numbers
An American Self-Portrait Running the Numbers 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 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month.
This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs. Employing themes such as the near versus the far, and the one versus the many, I hope to raise some questions about the roles and responsibilities we each play as individuals in a society that is increasingly enormous, incomprehensible, and overwhelming.
~chris jordan, Seattle, 2008
《Packing Peanuts》
Depicts 166,000 packing peanuts, equal to the number of overnight packages shipped by air in the U.S. every hour.
《Oil Barrels》
Depicts 28,000 42-gallon barrels, the amount of oil consumed in the United States every two minutes (equal to the flow of a medium-sized river).
《Light Bulbs》
Depicts 320,000 light bulbs, equal to the number of kilowatt hours of electricity wasted in the United States every minute from inefficient residential electricity usage (inefficient wiring, computers in sleep mode, etc.).
《Toothpicks》
Depicts one hundred million toothpicks, equal to the number of trees cut in the U.S. yearly to make the paper for junk mail.
《Plastic Cups》
Depicts one million plastic cups, the number used on airline flights in the US every six hours.
《Barbie Dolls,》
Depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006.
《PLASTIC BOTTLES》
Depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.
《Skull With Cigarette》
Depicts 200,000 packs of cigarettes, equal to the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking every six months.
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