Schuylkill Co-Generation Plant, with Arsenal Bridge, Philadelphia, PA, 2018.
All the pixels, none of the pollution, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/42660696454
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Schuylkill Co-Generation Plant, with Arsenal Bridge, Philadelphia, PA, 2018.
All the pixels, none of the pollution, at https://www.flickr.com/photos/mattblaze/42660696454
#photography
Power plants are often regarded as utilitarian eyesores, and are rarely (generally under public pressure) built to look beautiful or interesting, (London’s Battersea Power Station was an exception). Generally, like here, any beauty to be found is accidental, a direct consequence of interesting form happening to follow from function.
@mattblaze@federate.social i grew up seeing the oil fields, holding tanks and the refineries in Southern California. There was a monstrous beauty to them. Those large convoluted metal shapes breathing fire—as a kid they looked like dragons to me.
Arguably, given the health and environmental effects of things like power plants, perhaps they should be ugly. But ugliness, like beauty, is in the eye of the beholder.
In any case, if you like this kind of stuff, let me strongly recommend the work of Hilla and Bernd Becher. https://fraenkelgallery.com/artists/bernd-and-hilla-becher
@mattblaze@federate.social Saw some of their work at SFMOMA. It wasn’t why I was at the museum but so glad I caught it by accident as it’s some of my favourite photography now.