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Updated: September, 2002 STATES Winner of the American Art Directors Club Silver Award 2000 for a Complete Book Series !! “Though many have captured the mundane splendour of America's industrial heartlands, [Griffith] stands apart in presenting its mechanical creations as objet d'art.... transfixingly beautiful.” —The Times (London) “While most American documentary photography is steeped in sentimental nostalgia, Griffith’s work, as observed by Douglas Coupland in the book’s introduction, reads more like the viewpoint of a futuristic voyeur, looking back on relics of the present day.” —*surface “He captures the flipside of the American dream, a world where technology takes on the dead weight of history.” —Wallpaper "..a high contract Abstract Realism, an alien's eye lens on the fossils from yesterday's future." —i-D “There's something undeniably exotic about a road trip.... The results are stark: faintly eerie yet utterly magnificent images of recognisable objects that take on a new, architectural significance." —Cover story and 4 page excerpt in Creative Review "In looking at Christopher Griffith's photographs, the viewer is given a distinct and not unpleasant feeling of being in the future—and looking back on the objects of our present with unsentimental clarity. It's as if Griffith sees the present from some place a few hundred years ahead, where gas stations, freeways, and used-car lots inhabit the same slots of historical credibility as Monticello or Fallingwater." —Cover story and 6 page excerpt, Saturday Night Magazine “The Beat Generation would approve.” —“Up Front” Time Out London “American iconography is redefined in States, a study of the US landscape..." —Esquire (UK) “Imagine a special edition of the Sear roebuck catalog filled with American industrial icons. Now imagine a fashion photographer with a car, a couple of buddies, 17,000 miles of highway, and 13 weeks to kill. Collide the two ideas, and that .. is States..." —Bloomsbury Review More Press Coverage !! |
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