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Path, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 21 May 2015
Moral
Now the inevitable
As in tales of woe
The inexorable toll
It takes, it takes.
Robert Creeley (1926-2005): Moral, first published as an Alternative Press postcard, n.d., reprinted in Gnomic Verses in Echoes, 1994
Gift Shop, Woodland, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 28 May 2015
Library, Christmas Valley, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 19 May 2015
Library, Christmas Valley, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 19 May 2015
Library, Christmas Valley, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 19 May 2015
Early Morning, Christmas Valley, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 17 May 2015
Mount St. Helens from the Plains of Abraham: photo by Austin Granger, 7 May 2015
Mount St. Helens from the Plains of Abraham: photo by Austin Granger, 7 May 2015
Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 4 May 2015
Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 4 May 2015
Erosion Control Structure, near Las Vegas, Nevada: photo by Austin Granger, 1 May 2015
Atop a Parking Garage, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 30 April 2015
Atop a Parking Garage, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 30 April 2015
Atop a Parking Garage, Las Vegas: photo by Austin Granger, 28 April 2015
Car in a Wash, Nevada: photo by Austin Granger, 27 April 2015
Nude Girls, Nevada: photo by Austin Granger, 25 April 2015
Nude Girls, Nevada: photo by Austin Granger, 25 April 2015
Jesus and Mary, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 25 April 2015
Pier, Astoria, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 15 April 2015
Pier, Astoria, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 15 April 2015
Ruin, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 14 April 2015
Ruin, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 14 April 2015
Ruin, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 14 April 2015
Oyster shells, Nahcotta, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 10 April 2015
Oystervile, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 9 April 2015
Atop a Parking Garage, Portland: photo by Austin Granger, 2 April 2015
Farm for Sale, near Donald, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 2 April 2015
Farm for Sale, near Donald, Oregon: photo by Austin Granger, 2 April 2015
Along Old Highway 8, Goodnoe Hills, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 12 March 2015
Along Old Highway 8, Goodnoe Hills, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 12 March 2015
Van, Columbia River Gorge, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 10 March 2015
Abandoned Schoolhouse, Goodnoe Hills, Washington: photo by Austin Granger, 9 March 2015
Tom,
ReplyDeleteBeautiful photographs. Thanks for introducing me to this photographer. A sense of inevitability pervades each scene. No humans--or at least I didn't see any--just our detritus and debris.
-David
Thanks very much for picking up on Granger, David -- I believe this instantly qualifies you as the last of the short-list cognoscenti. The wide angle/long view approach does indeed reduce the human to what may well be its proper place -- lilliputian at best, small and smaller, and doing its best to remove itself from the picture alogether, ASAP. The photographer notes that his son is present in the top shot here... too small to be seen.
ReplyDeleteThe approach may leave out everything but the shadows and residue of the human, but in doing so it permits an awful lot of world to come in.
I've been following his work for some time now. He keeps getting better and better. The subject matter -- the exhaustion and emptiness of the West -- has, to my mind, never been done so well. And this latest step in his work, allowed by the use of a Noblex swing-lens camera, producing the vast panoramic effect without "stitching", is perfectly suited to that subject matter, the "last horizon", so to say. Of course, details of apparatus never matter much unless the apparatus is in the hands of a far-seeing master; but for my money, Granger's are that sort of hands, and his is that sort of eye.
it takes ...mmm...how would I translate that?
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