Tuesday 1 November 2011

Pylon Appreciation

Recently I joined the Pylon Appreciation Society due to my love of the great structures that cover our landscape. We see them almost everyday and I often feel people take them for granted and more than often I find people have a distinct dislike of them as they tend to impact a lot on our idyllic British landscapes. However, I feel that as they need to be there and because we are basically stuck with them we should appreciate them more. Personally I enjoy the way they frame our landscapes and how they remind us of how far we have come as a civilisation.
To celebrate them I would like to show a selection of my favorite images.

Charlie Meecham  - taken from the project The Oldham Road, about the road running between Manchester and Oldham, taken between 1986-88.



Mark Power - taken from his project 26 Different Endings, which is a collection of images all taken at the edge of the map in the A-Z London Street Atlas taken with his back to London; these were the places that didn't get included.



Simon Roberts - taken from the We English project, a personal project about what he sees as being typically English pastimes and his own memories of holidays in England. This one was taken at Radcliffe-on-Soar Power Station which is the one I live very near to, although I never knew it had a staff golf course!



Nigel Green - Taken from his book Dungeness (sorry for the bad scans!) about the Dungeness Nuclear Power Plant in Kent. Will be posting more picture from the book in a later post as I highly recommend it. (Just waiting for my copy to arrive!). The first two images are from the main section in the book, and next five are part of his Fragment images that are in the back of the book, which he says are made
by "exploiting the fugitive nature of the chemical silver print process.".





Stephen Hughes - Scan taken from his book 'Photographs' of his images taken between 1996-2000. "The photographs are sited in a limbo between worlds and are somehow adrift from reality - shorelines, building sites, juxtapositions where urban meets rural, where buildings are homogeneous and landscape anaesthetised"




Peter Goin - Taken from his book  Nuclear Landscapes, in which he looked at the landscapes where the nuclear testing had occured shortly after the second world war. (Very subtle pylons in this one!)





John Davies - Taken from the book Cross Currents which is a collection of his best landscapes both rural and industrial from various countries that were in the European Union in 1992.





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