Stephen Szoradi - MOCP
In his Full Circle series, Stephen Szoradi departs from the linear progression of his traditional documentary-style portraits of steel workers, in an attempt to capture the cyclical nature of his current subject, the City of Chicago water system. Silver-gelatin prints meditate on the stages of refinement that create a product and later restore it to be used again. The pictures themselves build in complexity and then seem to break down, moving from the sparseness of a single drain in an unfinished concrete room to a labyrinth of sharply angled waterways. Diptych and triptych formats reinforce themes of repetition and inter-connectedness, sometimes by creating a union from multiple parts or emphasizing the structural similarity between panels, sometimes by playing with the notion of sequence and progression inherent in adjacent frames while nonetheless showing a single time and place.
- Tagged:
- architecture,
- art,
- artist,
- chicago,
- documentary,
- history,
- pattern
- Bookmarked 1 year, 11 months ago, on March 1, 2010