Comments on: Communist Ruins, Capitalist Ruins http://www.galleryhopper.org/?p=873 Todd Walker's photography ephemera: theory, craft, failure, success, learning. Read, enjoy, share, discard. Mon, 21 Sep 2009 12:09:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Detroit: Disaster Magnetism | Gallery Hopper http://www.galleryhopper.org/?p=873&cpage=1#comment-876 Detroit: Disaster Magnetism | Gallery Hopper Wed, 26 Aug 2009 12:03:17 +0000 http://www.galleryhopper.org/?p=873#comment-876 [...] a quick traffic spike. Tomorrow Museum calls it “ruin porn“. As I’ve talked about before, Detroit is just one more “end of civilization” location shoot, starting with Chernobyl [...] [...] a quick traffic spike. Tomorrow Museum calls it “ruin porn“. As I’ve talked about before, Detroit is just one more “end of civilization” location shoot, starting with Chernobyl [...]

]]> By: Davin Ellicson http://www.galleryhopper.org/?p=873&cpage=1#comment-712 Davin Ellicson Tue, 21 Jul 2009 12:29:03 +0000 http://www.galleryhopper.org/?p=873#comment-712 I, myself, am deep in the midst of documenting Bucharest 20 years after the fall of Communism: "Romania was more vulnerable than any other communist country to the myth of the west as material paradise, to mall culture and measurement of success by what kind of mobile phone you have. It's particularly strong here, perhaps because it all happened so suddenly, even to the educated classes. A lot of damage has been done. . ." --Cordruta Cruceanu, former curator at The National Gallery of Art, Bucharest I, myself, am deep in the midst of documenting Bucharest 20 years after the fall of Communism:

“Romania was more vulnerable than any other communist country to the myth of the west as material paradise, to mall culture and measurement of success by what kind of mobile phone you have. It’s particularly strong here, perhaps because it all happened so suddenly, even to the educated classes. A lot of damage has been done. . .” –Cordruta Cruceanu, former curator at The National Gallery of Art, Bucharest

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