Picture Show: Scott Strazzante & Robert Adams

Both of these photographers were published in NPR this week. The first i loved because it took me back to the family farm in Texas and later into my ivory suburban childhood. Its called Common Ground:

On July 2, 2002, Jean and Harlow Cagwin watched as their home — the last remnant of their 118-acre cattle farm in Lockport, Illinois — was torn down clearing the way for a new housing development. Several years later, Ed and Amanda Grabenhofer and their four children moved into, what is now, the new Willow Walk subdivision. This is the work of photographer, Scott Strazzante, for almost over a decade.

http://mediastorm.org/0023.htm

The second is a beautiful and poignant representation of the Midwest personal sprawl and tranquil terrain. I always found the beauty of Nebraska (and its pictures) not in the subject, but the void around it. Photographer, Robert Adams, who recently won the Hasselblad Award, does a great job translating that peaceful emptiness and bland encasing into character.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/04/robert_adams.html