2011-05-11
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Will you still love me… by John Girt, from the 1650 Gallery’s exhibition, On The Road.
2010-12-07
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U.S. 97, South of Klamath Falls, Oregon. July 21, 1973
This photograph by Stephen Shore that is part of the series Uncommon Places is currently on view at the exhibition Der Rote Bulli in Düsseldorf. The image on the billboard could have been a painting by Ed Ruscha.
Instantly collected for my billboards tag.
2010-11-03
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A Billboard That Advertises Nothing But Clean Air, as covered at co.design:
Non-Sign II is the brainchild of the Seattle art and architecture firm Lead Pencil Studio. Even crazier: It was commissioned by the federal government, which usually regards high art the way one would a dead rat.
Lead Pencil Studio’s Daniel Mihalyo sheds light on the concept:
Borrowing the effectiveness of billboards to redirect attention away from the landscape… this permanently open aperture between nations works to frame nothing more than a clear view of the changing atmospheric conditions beyond.
2009-11-08
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From synecdoche on Flickr, an art project in Houston:
Using 13 billboards along the city´s downtown freeways, Olivier will replace the usual advertisements with images of the urban landscape that would be visible if the billboard did not exist - the sky, trees, and buildings obstructed by the ads will now be “revealed.”
Having been to the southern US, I can certainly recognise the pattern synecdoche describes in the description of another photo of a billboard from the project:
Houston is a city of billboards and big signs, sprouting everywhere above the highways in gleaming, glaring, blinking, clashing profusion. A billboardless vista is rare; in traffic-dense commuter areas there are so many that they cancel each other out, becoming visual background noise. Even on a relatively deserted stretch of highway there will be at least one or two every half-mile or so.
That makes this project, time-limited though it is, even more wonderful.
