Steven B. Smith : “The Weather and a Place to Live” (Photos)

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Steven B. Smith : “The Weather and a Place to Live” (Photos)

Categories: photography
Tags: "a kind of tamed and caged suburbia", "suburban sprawl", "The Weather and a Place to Live", black & white, bleak, development, funny, Landscape, photography, Steven B. Smith, suburbia, transition

Las Vegas
Nevada
1996

Castaic
California
2000

Santa Clarita
California
1999

St. George
Utah
2003

Bloomington
Utah
1997

Dillon
Colorado
1999

Steven B. Smith is a photographer whose work chronicles the transition of the dramatic and formidable Western landscape into a kind of tamed and caged suburbia. The photographs depict what has become derisively referred to as suburban sprawl, but they also reveal conflicted feelings about development in the West in general. Many are simultaneously funny and bleak, a byproduct perhaps of his affection for and identification with the area. How the people who dwell in these spaces make use of them and incorporate them into their habitats is Smiths singular preoccupation. [Extract : Sasha Wolf Gallery]

Steven B. Smith : Website

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1 Kay Harper-Hayes
February 2, 2011 at 2:15 pm

Amazing work.

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