Comments on: Lauren Fleishman’s Indiana series http://www.lostateminor.com/2008/05/15/lauren-fleishmans-indiana-series/ Lost At E Minor: For creative people Fri, 17 May 2013 18:45:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Karim http://www.lostateminor.com/2008/05/15/lauren-fleishmans-indiana-series/#comment-132537 Karim Thu, 29 May 2008 16:26:12 +0000 http://www.lostateminor.com/2008/05/15/lauren-fleishmans-indiana-series/#comment-132537 i ran into Lauren Fleishman in January 2000 in a McDonalds in Paris. for some strange reason we talked very little about photography but some time after she started showing me her work. her dating series, the life assisted series and specially the Fat Camp series stroke me deep in my core. coming for places so different as New York City and Bogotá in Colombia, South America, these images seemed almost surreal, staged perhaps.

Lauren has an eye for reality and its vastness and its cruelness, but she also can see the beauty of the mundane and the usual. her work is amazing.

]]> By: Lilian http://www.lostateminor.com/2008/05/15/lauren-fleishmans-indiana-series/#comment-128078 Lilian Fri, 16 May 2008 00:10:21 +0000 http://www.lostateminor.com/2008/05/15/lauren-fleishmans-indiana-series/#comment-128078 There is a strong sense of rural fatalism, a stillness that smells of death…it reminds me of John Wyndham’s ‘The Chrysalids’ novel, about post-apocalyptic human society—the story starts at the point where people have to start from scratch and have successfully arrived at this ‘frontierland/wild west’ agricultural society…a great read…highly recommended.

]]> By: Zac http://www.lostateminor.com/2008/05/15/lauren-fleishmans-indiana-series/#comment-127764 Zac Thu, 15 May 2008 07:47:11 +0000 http://www.lostateminor.com/2008/05/15/lauren-fleishmans-indiana-series/#comment-127764 Great post Alison – really nice find. Love these photos.

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