Artists Announce They've Found All The Beauty They Can In Urban Decay

**paulr** · 25-Jul-2011, 16:43

Originally Posted by rdenney

Then you may appreciate the last sentence in the article:

Oh, I get it. I've indulged both the urban and suburban. I've been properly skewered.

**Bruce Watson** · 25-Jul-2011, 17:04

Originally Posted by Michael Gordon

"...the art world announced Tuesday that it had captured all the beauty it was going to find in rusted-out cars, abandoned houses, and condemned industrial sites."

I got to that point decades ago. Good to see the rest of the artist communities are finally catching up!

**rdenney** · 25-Jul-2011, 17:17

Originally Posted by John Kasaian

Yesterday I came across the coolest looking rusted out derelict milk delivery truck off HWY 99 and I was worried that I'd have to go back with my camera and photograph it....
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"Tradition is not the worship of ashes, but the preservation of fire"---GKC

Yeah, if you photograph a rusted hulk, isn't that worshiping ashes? (Rust is just a slow way to make ashes, it seems to me.)

Rick "you'll have to light it on fire first" Denney

**Sean Galbraith** · 25-Jul-2011, 18:31

Originally Posted by paulr

For some reason, I prefer it when the Onion makes fun people besides me.

I thought the same thing. :-)

**Michael Gordon** · 25-Jul-2011, 18:51

Originally Posted by paulr

I think of Ozzy Osbourne's critique of This is Spinal Tap:
"It's not funny, it's true."

That's just the thing, Paul. I can get upset reading The Onion.

They are the online equivalent of the Colbert Report or The Daily Show.

**Mark Sawyer** · 26-Jul-2011, 01:37

Typical mainstream media, always behind the times. Gursky started the next cliche years ago...

**John Kasaian** · 26-Jul-2011, 01:47

Originally Posted by rdenney

Yeah, if you photograph a rusted hulk, isn't that worshiping ashes? (Rust is just a slow way to make ashes, it seems to me.)

Rick "you'll have to light it on fire first" Denney

That depends on if I've made a tradition of shooting rust, dosen't it?

**MIke Sherck** · 26-Jul-2011, 06:42

Hmm. I photographed an old abandoned gas station last night but I haven't developed the film yet. Now what do I do?

Mike

**rdenney** · 26-Jul-2011, 06:55

Originally Posted by paulr

Oh, I get it. I've indulged both the urban and suburban. I've been properly skewered.

Sucks to be you!

Rick "whose Onion scars reveal perverse pleasure in seeing someone else skewered" Denney

**sepstein17** · 26-Jul-2011, 20:02

By shooting the nice/pretty stuff left after you remove all the hulks/rust/falling down bldgs -- what you are really doing is shooting pre-decay so then you become predictors of the future -- very cool!