Running the Numbers by Chris Jordan
Posted in Home by Yahor | Tags: Chris JordanRunning the Numbers looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. My hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone, such as we find daily in articles and books. Statistics can feel abstract and anesthetizing, making it difficult to connect with and make meaning of 3.6 million SUV sales in one year, for example, or 2.3 million Americans in prison, or 32,000 breast augmentation surgeries in the U.S. every month.
Barbie Dolls depicts 32,000 Barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006.
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Plastic Bottles depicts two million plastic beverage bottles, the number used in the US every five minutes.
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Prison Uniforms depicts 2.3 million folded prison uniforms, equal to the number of Americans incarcerated in 2005.
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Cell Phones depicts 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day.
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Cans Seurat depicts 106,000 aluminum cans, the number used in the US every thirty seconds.
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Handguns depicts 29,569 handguns, equal to the number of gun-related deaths in the US in 2004.
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Ben Franklin depicts 125,000 one-hundred dollar bills ($12.5 million), the amount our government spends every hour on the war in Iraq.
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http://gstupnitsky.livejournal.com/ says:
Very nice and strong concept! The meaning of life
Paul says:
How did they make Ben Franklin out of 100s? Every 100 looks identical.
Deeljehuiswerk says:
That is both awesome and terrifying!
Pauls_Mother says:
Well maybe after their printed, but after you touch them they deff look different from other $100 bills ;p
Jay says:
@Paul:
It seems to me that the opacity of each bill was played with.
That’s only if it’s digital.
Otherwise, Paul’s_Mother got it. Bills change through time after being touched too much.
Yahor says:
yeah. I sure he use Photoshop to darken/lighten some bills
djpt3 says:
wow…crazy perspective.
charlotte says:
This is all very scary…
Robert Lee says:
this is complete liberal bullshit.
nacho santos says:
Brilliant. It’s not enough to say thigs, they have to be well said. Also, it’s not enough to do things well, they have to say something.