Description:
from Harlem Document project
Label Text:
Facade, Unoccupied Building testifies to the abundance of advertising materials in New York at the time it was taken. Furthermore, this photograph invokes advertising as a sign of human presence in its literal absence. Uncanny in mood, this photograph appears to imply that posters and broadsides replaced the former human occupants of this now-derelict building. Siskind emphasizes the geometric similarities between the rectangular boarded-up windows and the rectangular broadsides. The way the advertisements are adhered flush to the building face, following the contours of the wall and the window frames, induces the feeling that the advertisements are a natural accoutrement of the building, as if the building is growing posters like a fungus.
MD, PHOTOdocument exhibition, March 30, 2012-July 22, 2012
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