Man Checking Phone. © Copyright 2019 G Dan Mitchell – all rights reserved.
A man chiecks his phone while statnding in an angular urban landscape.
This is a little slice of urban life. I suspect that in another 100 years people will look at photographs from this era and find it odd that we area always looking down at little handheld devices. At least I hope that this is a passing obsession, and that we eventually start to look up again and interact with the world around us rather than just with the virtual world on those little screens.
The person is, of course, the central thing in this photography. But the surroundings are also, I think, rather interesting. The image has an almost cubist quality, being full of rectangular shapes of various sizes, shapes, and colors. Some of them are almost geometrically perfect, but others — like the plastic attached to the cyclone fence — are off-kilter. Even the foreground is composed for rectangles, though they are distorted by perspective effects.
G Dan Mitchell is a California photographer and visual opportunist. His book, “California’s Fall Color: A Photographer’s Guide to Autumn in the Sierra” is available from Heyday Books and Amazon.
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