ING: Vice

I like this very much. Really nice abstraction.
And I feel the same way regarding history and/or art being covered over and torn down.
They painted over a 'Mathew Brady(s) studio' sign on the side of a building on lower Broadway in NYC not too many years back because the new residents didn't like answering the occasional question about it. True story.

Walker Evans did some of these--check his late Polaroids.

Of course broken text is also the source of the name of Kurt Schwitters "merz" school of art.

There's a deliberate apeing of Walker Evans here--see the other pictures I've posted today to prove that I'm incapable of an original idea.

Walker Evans's Polaroid probably taught me more about vision and composition than any other photos I've ever seen. It's one of the few photo books to which I had a visceral reaction, not just the "oh, isn't that interesting" type of reaction! And who can mistrust the gut?

apeing or not, still like it...really nice work.

Why, thank you!

yes, really nice Michel! Though personally I wish the bottom was cropped a bit.. but that's just me. I'm a princess that way (!). Anyway- I'm not sure if I agree with the walker evans comment so much though. He DID make photographs that included signage... and I think he, like you, was interested in the graphic aspect of the signage... but I feel this photograph is far more similar to an aaron siskind photo, in most aesthetic ways.

Anyway- great work, Michel... keep it up!