Zoe Strauss Artwork

The artwork I chose happens to be a picture taken by Zoe Strauss. In the picture you can see a male walking past what looks like an abandoned car garage, or store. In the picture there are remnants of a prior snow storm. The snow shown in the picture looks mostly melted, but there is some remaining piles on the sidewalk near the road. Near the man’s rear foot shown in the picture you can see a can see a dingy, and wet cardboard box flattened to be used as a potential shelter, or place to sleep for an individual. At the top of the garage you can see a large white sign with red and large bold-faced letters stating the word “SAVE.” Behind the large, and potentially ambitious sign you can see decrepit blue paneling encrusted with layers of rust. Underneath the white sign you can see white shutters that are fairly beaten up, that lead to a metal shutter-like garage door. The door is a dirty white with fainted graffiti …show more content…
She is a Philadelphia photographer who began her career by having one-day exhibitions each year. At these annual exhibitions she would present her photography at a place located beneath an I-95 highway overpass in South Philadelphia. To mount her photographs she places them on the concrete bridge supports, where individuals were able to purchase her work for five dollars. She likes her work to show economic struggles and hardships experienced by residents not only in her town of Philadelphia, but other cities located in the United States as well. She is a political activist and is actually a self-taught photographer. In 1995, she created the Philadelphia Public Art Project. The Philadelphia Public Art Project is a one woman-organization and its goal it to allow the citizens of Philadelphia to gain accessibility to art in their everyday lives. Strauss believes when she is capturing a photo that is symbolizes something important or influential that goes unnoticed by most of