SIX PEDESTRIAN CONTROL BOXES

The strategy I conveyed in my series of photographs was “A series of seemingly banal and quotidian spaces that have some common abstract quality” in which I have emphasised through the inspiration of the American Artist Edward Ruscha ideas and techniques of high and low contrast, colour scheme and texture. I have used these techniques to convey a story of everyday city life around Hay-market to Broadway.

The 6 photos of pedestrian control boxes I photographed communicate to the viewer, ideas of a busy city lifestyle, a fast-paced environment, people are struggling to get to work on time and movement is inevitable in which I tried to communicate the same ideas and techniques Ruscha had in mind.

These ideas are represented through the weathered, damaged and aged pedestrian control box. Furthermore, the weathered and banal look of the pedestrian control box draws attention to the viewer that there is more to be seen than just an ordinary pedestrian control box that the control box tells a story, from when it initially was manufactured to when its aged and weathered. The aged and weathered control box also conveys to the viewer that it has been around for many years, thus experiencing the world around itself evolving and becoming what it is today a modern world full of modern architecture.

Final Design

“Six pedestrian Control Boxes” By Dylan Smith

Design process

I originally took photos of traffic lights around Hay-market and Broadway but decided not to use those photos because I found that it wasn't as effective as pedestrian control boxes.

Idea #1 Traffic Tight By Dylan Smith

Research

26 Gasoline Stations By Ed Rushca

Bibliography

Ruscha, E 1963, 26 Gasoline Stations, JPEG, viewed 10/07/2017 <http://soulchronic.over-blog.com/2015/04/ed-ruscha-galerie-gagosian.html>.

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