NOLAN SMOCK
While those works were made with large-format cameras over long periods of time, this project was made under three weeks with a Sony Cybershot from 2003. That digital camera’s small sensor size acted as a contrast to the images that influenced me, although that difference is nearly cancelled out by a larger-than-life Texas.
Using turn-of-the-century tech from the last time I lived there (during my adolescence), the series looks to the city’s sprawling built enviroment, its iconography and symbols. A history intertwined with the landscape.
Dallas was my birthplace and home for a long time and this was my first time back in many years. Sometimes the photographs feel like they were made in a dream, driving back and forth across its impossibly long avenues, day and night.
A photobook maquette was made (see above) with a much longer essay but the book remains unpublished.
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