gillianchicago
Hot town, summer in the city
Black and white is abstract; color is not. Looking at a black and white photograph, you are already looking at a strange world.
Joel Sternfeld
This is Crown Fountain, in Millennium Park, in Chicago. You must know the one, with the granite reflecting pools and the massive, giant LED faces. You might not have known it was called Crown Fountain, I had forgotten, but even if you’ve never set foot in Chicago, surely you know this place, because you’ve seen it in a million pictures.
I have been to Chicago, and I have seen this sculpture, in this park, but still I might not have known it in Gillian’s picture. She crops the giant structure, and the surrounding trees, the huge, ever changing faces are lost under water. Without color all that one sees is people, stones and water; fundamental things, in an abstract, strange world.
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