Photographs of Mass Consumption
Beautiful, industrial, unsustainable, dramatic. Photographer Chris Jordan describes the photos in his series “Intolerable Beauty: Portraits of American Mass Consumption” as his “first foray into being an engaged artist.”
“The idea [behind this series] was to capture the scale of [our] mass consumption. It was the first time I stood in front of piles of the detritus of our mass consumption.”
~ Cell phones #2, Atlanta, 2005
“Initially, I thought I was seeing the scale [but] in the end, I realized this was the tiny tip of the iceberg.”
~ Cell phone chargers, Atlanta, 2004
