Touristic View of Land Use is Subject of Project
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Igor Vamos and Photo Spot
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Media Artists Melinda Stone and Igor Vamos recently
initiated and executed the Photo Spot Project for The Center,
erecting over 50 "Suggested Photo Spot" signs at selected
sites from coast to coast. Sights designated as a "Suggested
Photo Spot" include the tailings pile of a copper mine
and the waste water treatment facility for the Kodak company's
headquarters.
The spots are not selected simply according to
the function of facilities or land uses at the site. Criteria
for selecting Photo Spots primarily relate to tourist photography
issues, based on visual and aesthetics considerations, and a
sense of what might be "photogenic". "In most
cases, you have to be there to fully get it", says Stone,
"the pictures we take of the Photo Spots represent just
one aspect of the site, but the project is really about the
interraction of viewers with each location".
The sites have been documented in a number of
ways, in preparation for a gallery show about the project. A
postcard showing the sign, in the foreground with the "sight"
in the background has been produced for each spot, and a guidebook
to all the "Suggested Photo Spots" is availiable from
the CLUI Shop.
