Spitting Pictures-Rudy Burckhardt

A take off of the idiom, 'spitting image', spitting pictures are images that "get me" in some affective way. That is, they make me feel something and they draw me into them because I identify with them somehow. The image gets me emotionally and it also gets me in that it seems to understand something about me.

Images have a powerful way of connecting with us through identification. The really cool part of this is that often we aren't quite sure why an image "gets us" the way it does.

This week, I found the work of Rudy Burckhardt (1914-1999), Swiss-American photographer/film maker. His work from the Beat Generation, circa 1940s-1950s, depicts the commercialization and industrialization overtaking the importance of individual lives in America.










Love his work!! Hope you love it too :)
~L