"Flying Lesson"
From the series "Earth Elegies"
2000
Photogravure print
The subject in this photo is a man that seems to be holding birds on strings where you would think to see balloons. The artists created this images and their many like it by carefully cutting and pasting different negatives together to create one image. The ParkeHarrison's whom are husband and wife have created a multitude of photos like this one. Most of their work focuses on humans and the environment. I think that this photo symbolizes how humans are affecting the environment. In this work the man seems to be wrangling in the birds as if he was going to put them in the cage in the photo, the same way that we are slowly wrangling wildlife into certain areas but tearing down their homes and whatnot. Many of their other works seem to show man trying to mend the Earth single handedly but I don't feel that this is the case in regards to this photo.
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