CITY
"…is not every square inch of our cities the scene of a crime?" ~ Walter Benjamin
In the starkly melancholic photographs of City, forsaken factories, abandoned transit stations, and decaying infrastructure are exposed as cracked myths and failed dreams of urbanity. Herzog approaches sites in Niland, California, New Orleans, Bolivia, Germany, Latvia, and Austria as an artist-archaeologist, visually sifting through rust and rubble for forgotten human hopes and plans. As a chronicle of defeat by time and the elements, the series questions the fundamental sustainability of the City.
MEDIUM: Silver gelatin analog prints (Labrador enlarger, APO lens)
from Pyrogallol developed negatives (35 mm, 120), photographs taken with Hasselblad X-Pan, Linhof Technorama 6x17, Fuji 6x8
printed on FOMA paper, sheet size: 16 x 20, archival washed, split toned (gold & selenium)
