Fave Foto Friday: The Numbers Edition

Today is Pax's Fave Foto Friday. And I'm going with a collection today by Chris Jordan.

Prison Uniforms, 2007
Archival inkjet, 11x23 feet in six vertical panels
Depicts 2.3 million folded prison uniforms, equal to the number of Americans incarcerated in 2005.


Chris does the photography of statistics:

This new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics tend to feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or $12.5 million spent every hour on the Iraq war. This project visually examines these vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.

Check out the whole series. Amazing.

Bird of Paradise

I know, it's not Fave Fot Friday, but this was one of the top pix on Flickr today, and it really made me smile.

Fave Foto Friday: Aurora Borealis

It's Fave Foto Friday over at Pax's Place. And I'm playing along this week with a stunning pic of the Aurora Borealis taken by Dalla. Oooommmmmm.

Fave Foto Friday: Zen Bridge

Pax's Fave Foto Friday is running a beautiful picture of Anna Nicole Smith from her Guess days. Nice. I like this one. It reminds me to calm down...and remember that winter can't last forever.

Fave Foto Friday: Swan Lake

I'm finally getting off my lazy blogging butt and playing along with Pax's Favorite Foto Friday. I don't know the provenance of this photo, but it makes me happy anyways.