These images are pretty small, but in the coffee table book quite large and detailed plates look just amazing. Each shot is totally theatrical in nature, complex lighting and treatments, just amazing and thought provoking…and a little dark…
Fantastic photography and a well written article. I’ve had a chance to see the book with these plates, and the body of work is so large you could probably go through the book in a month if you put great effort into it, there’s so much to see and think about. Just beautiful, and a bit dark.
I notice that nearly all shots appear to be about the same “time” of day which adds to the spookiness; kind of like being in all places in that town at once.
There is a sadness to most shots that you want to get to the root of, to dig into and understand. Very powerful stuff!
Vulture Mine, Wickenburg Arizona
This ghostly mine is fantastic, like a time capsule with machinery and signs of how miners lived so long ago. Authentic artifacts everywhere, a real find if you want to explore something that will probably not exist another 20 years from now…
Early April my family took a short trip starting in Yuma (where I spent several years in my aerospace days) and winding up in a small town called Wickenburg. The town is kind of like a haven for retirees who want to get out of Phoenix (it’s about 5 miles outside of Phoenix.) The ghost mine was amazing; lots of authentic old stuff, machinery and mining implements left in the early 1900’s. This shot is atop a HUGE generator, one of several that powered the crushing, sluicing operations to take blasted rocks and get the gold dust that hides there. An amazing find, and I doubt if it will last another decade.
