Project Statement

by C. Enos

While living in downtown Boston I did all my shopping at the Haymarket. I had been using the SX-70 camera and looking for color subject matter. The garbage piles were fastinating to me and I would go every Saturday and photograph before the garbage trucks cleaned up. I had been photographing trash and decay for many years so this was a natural progression. When I moved to downtown Boston in the early 70's I found it necessary to find beauty in decay. I wanted a serious-non-serious book. After all...it is just a bunch of garbage.

Garbaj

Chris Enos

title note: [T. Shaw]

Agents

Chris Enos

type: initiating

role:
photographer
designer

dates:
publication: 1982

Visual Studies Workshop

type: initiating

role:
printer
publisher

location: Rochester, NY

Aesthetic Profile

movement:
unknown Street Photography

subject:
photographs (LCSH)

themes: Food supply, food waste [T. Shaw]

content form:
notebooks (local)

publication tradition:
artists' book (local)

inspiration: Haymarket vendors in Boston [T. Shaw]

community: workshop Visual Studies Workshop [T. Shaw]