‘Worlds Away’ is close to home
Visiting the “World’s Away: Suburban Landscapes,” Ogilvy and his professor, photographer John Lehr (whose work is included in the show), discuss why we pray in McDonald’s.
BO: One of the most interesting things about “Worlds Away: New Suburban Landscapes” for me is the way in which it balances a number of different approaches to seeing and understanding the suburbs. There seems to be this common notion of the suburbs as a sort of dangerous force pushing outward across America and eating up the country, but some of the work in this show, like Julia Christensen’s “Big Box Reuse”...
