“The Pure Products of America Go Crazy” is a photo exhibition recently installed at Pratt Institute featuring the works of artists Lucas Blalock, Owen Kydd, and John Lehr. These photographers celebrate, as the name suggest, the pure products of America in their images; they find beauty in banal objects that represent the residue of a pursuit of American living. In doing so, they also emphasize the role that the camera itself, as well as post-production digital tools, have in creating value to the captured subject. The three photographers go about this common end goal in various ways. Lucas Blalock, born 1978 in Asheville, North Carolina, likes to point out the falseness of the physical photograph by making liberal and deliberately crude
