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What do these pictures represent? His pictures represent American waste and the problems in society.
What do these images convey to us? They convey an image of uselessness and need to recycle and not trash our world.
How are these images supposed to make us feel? They are supposed to disgust us and make us want to take action.
Why do you think that the artist chose to create these photographs? I think he created these pictures to make people see the problems and understand that it is not just something we can forget about to make it go away.
How hard do you think that it was to create the photos? I suppose it was pretty easy, if his cause is as important as he thinks it really is, and in some of the pictures (mainly the cell-phone ones) it is obvious that he just went to a company and asked to used them as they are all exactly the same.

Spend about 15 minutes writing about one picture, and describe the problem that you think that it represents. Recycling Yard #5, Seattle 2003 44x52"- is extremely pretty. The problem that it is trying to bring to life is the waste of paper and normal goods in our society. As far as most of his photography goes, I disagree with it, including this picture. Many of his things are very beautiful, but he goes so far to set them up, as well as taking a simple small picture and reproducing it over and over again to make a large picture (he said himself that he did this in an interview). Yes, there is a problem in our society, but many times recycling is not the way to go. It creates more air pollution and danger in many instances, as well as many things (paper) being made exclusively from trees that are grown exclusively to make paper, so he is creating problems that do not exist. Many of his pictures do not say anything at all. They are just beautiful and he just finds them- the things that he sets up are not as successful as the work he actually creates. I guess they can be just loosely related together and he can call it a collection. I respect his work and talent as an artist, I just don't think he actually has any clue what he is trying to say and used the cause of recycling and problems in the world as a vehicle to success and money. He needs to get over himself and come down off of his self-righteous throne, while realizing that he is not the savior of our society.