I was very interested in Brian Ulrich's Copia when we took a class trip up to his show in Richmond his method of addressing consumer culture spoke volumes to me. I was most interested in his photographs of abandoned and run down storefronts, and what that said about the speed at which our interests as a consumer society change. I admired his courage to go into a store and take as much time that he needed in order to make the photographs of products on shelves and signs and such. His photographs of people in thrift stores shopping not only perpetuate the nature of our short term interests in products, but also introduce an aspect of our socioeconomic class system.
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