Anonymization
Robert Harding Pittman
Kehrer Verlag
Hardcover
120 pages
240×240 mm
2012
ISBN 978-3-86828-288-7
All across the world a uniform, homogeneous model of development, inspired by Los Angeles style urban sprawl—consisting of massive freeways, parking lots, shopping malls, and large-scale masterplanned communities with golf courses—is being stamped onto the earth’s topography. This globalized model of architecture does not respect or adapt itself to the natural or cultural environment onto which it is implanted. German American photographer Robert Harding Pittman began working on this project in Los Angeles ten years ago. Since then he has been photographing the spread of “L.A. style development” in Las Vegas, Spain, France, Germany, Greece, Dubai, and South Korea.
Robert Harding Pittman grew up in Boston and in Hamburg. After taking his undergraduate and graduate degrees in environmental engineering, an area of concern that continues to inform his work, he received an M.F.A. in Photography and Film/Video at the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts). His main interest is how different cultures interact with the environment and how they manage “development”.
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