7. Lucas Foglia
After looking at the work of Shelby Lee Adams, I was filled with urge to research other Documentary Photographers who have documented the home lives of others, or just documenting home life in another way.
I find the use of Art blogs very interesting and always useful, scrolling through all kinds of art including documentary, one I've been using a lot is www.faithistorment.com. One of the many artists I have found on this website was Lucas Foglia.
It's his series 'Natural Order', which I have found to be the most interesting and relative to documentary photography, and perhaps even related to the work of Shelby Lee Adams.
About the series:
"I grew up with my extended family on a small farm in the suburbs of New York City. While malls and supermarkets developed around us, we heated our house with wood, farmed and canned our food, and bartered the plants we grew for everything from shoes to dental work. But while my family followed many of the principles of the back-to-the-land movement, by the time I was eighteen we owned three tractors, four cars, and five computers. This mixture of the modern world in our otherwise rustic life made me curious to see what a completely self-sufficient way of living might look like.
I find the use of Art blogs very interesting and always useful, scrolling through all kinds of art including documentary, one I've been using a lot is www.faithistorment.com. One of the many artists I have found on this website was Lucas Foglia.
Lucas Foglia
http://lucasfoglia.com/
http://www.faithistorment.com/search?q=lucas+foglia
"Lucas Foglia (b. 1983) was raised on a small family farm in New York and is currently based in San Francisco. A graduate of Brown University and the Yale School of Art, Lucas’ photographs are in the permanent collections of the Museum of Fine Arts Houston, the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Pilara Foundation and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Fine Art. His work has been published in Aperture Magazine, the New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post Magazine, British Journal of Photography, Contact Sheet, Wired and PDN’s 30 among others. His first book, A Natural Order, was published by Nazraeli Press in 2012."
It's his series 'Natural Order', which I have found to be the most interesting and relative to documentary photography, and perhaps even related to the work of Shelby Lee Adams.
About the series:
"I grew up with my extended family on a small farm in the suburbs of New York City. While malls and supermarkets developed around us, we heated our house with wood, farmed and canned our food, and bartered the plants we grew for everything from shoes to dental work. But while my family followed many of the principles of the back-to-the-land movement, by the time I was eighteen we owned three tractors, four cars, and five computers. This mixture of the modern world in our otherwise rustic life made me curious to see what a completely self-sufficient way of living might look like.
From 2006 through 2010, I travelled throughout the southeastern United States befriending, photographing, and interviewing a network of people who left cities and suburbs to live off the grid. Motivated by environmental concerns, religious beliefs, or predictions of economic collapse, they build their homes from local materials, obtain their water from nearby springs, and hunt, gather, or grow their own food.
All the people in my photographs are working to maintain a self-sufficient lifestyle, but no one I found lives in complete isolation from the mainstream. Many have websites that they update using laptop computers, and cell phones that they charge on car batteries or solar panels. They do not wholly reject the modern world. Instead, they step away from it and choose the parts that they want to bring with them"
Unlike Adams series on the Appalachians, who were completely secluded from the modern, mainstream world, these communities which Foglia documents do have a connection to the mainstream, the communities are still small, but they have decided to live their own ways, which I think Foglia captures very well.
Unlike Adams series on the Appalachians, who were completely secluded from the modern, mainstream world, these communities which Foglia documents do have a connection to the mainstream, the communities are still small, but they have decided to live their own ways, which I think Foglia captures very well.
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His photographs are fairly simple, capturing every day moments as they come, documenting surroundings of the communities and various details of the area in which they live. His photographs do not always contain people, but there is always a some sort of subject which is part of his documentation. Unlike Adams, he doesn't take as many portrait shots, which makes me question if they'd work in black and white, the colour seems a fairly important part of the image in some way. Adams portraiture is close and full of detail, which even though Foglia's photographs are full of detail, they do not need the black and white to highlight that detail.
Foglia's work has been shown in the Michael Hoppen Contemporary Gallery, which is useful to know that there are contemporary documentary photographers as well as the usual documentary photographers.
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