Northern Pacific #15, 2006, Photograph
Central Pacific # 18, 1994, photograph
Union Pacific #34, 1995, photograph
DeathValley: Ancient Footpath Along the Shore of a Departed Lake, 1995, Photograph
Marc Ruwedel
website: unknown
Gallery Representation: Museum of Contemporary Photography
"The details. The weather. Getting off the Interstates, far from fast food stops. Discovery, disappointment, getting lost, the occasional bear or coyote. Being alone. A sense of the histories inscribed on the surface of the land."
- The interviewer asked Ruwedel what we are all missing out on that he is taking in the photographs. The quote above was his response.
Mark Ruwedel was born in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1953.
"Combining photographs of ancient trails and remnants of 12,000-year-old ceremonial sites with modern tire tracks and roads, Ruwedel questions how different these intrusions really are. " This is a description of his work on the MOCP website. He compares how the environment changes and how things we have created, like train tracks and systems are falling away just the same. I appreciate these photographs because of exploration that seems to happen during the creation of them.
I hope to echo this exploration in the photographs I create this semester. I want my photographs to seem to be something people would walk by everyday but not notice. i want to bring the passage of time visually on top of my images.
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