“I鈥檓 not a photographer. I shoot for architecture – if there鈥檚 art here it鈥檚 a byproduct.” Looking to聽the Pop Art movement as a lens through which to understand the American vernacular,聽photographs by architect, urban planner and theorist Denise Scott Brown explore 1960s Las Vegas.
Seeming to anticipate an image-saturated digital world, scenes captured by Scott-Brown – now on view at Carriage Trade, New York –聽 present a discordant yet mesmering combination of billboards, adverts and signage.
Investigating urban sprawl and commercial iconography, the collection poses a challenge to Modernism, considering the relationship between image and site.
The show runs until 22 December. Find out more
Credits:
1.聽Denise Scott Brown, Mojave Desert, California, around 1966.
2.聽Denise Scott Brown, Architettura Minore on The Strip, Las Vegas, 1966.
3.聽Denise Scott Brown, Industrial Romanticism, Los Angeles, 1966.
4.聽Denise Scott Brown, Pico Boulevard, Santa Monica, 1966.
