The Friday Fillip

So many things. New products every day. So much choice. Or…?

Photographer Mark Luthringer has put together — literally — images of parts of everyday objects, such as cars, houses, RV’s, commercial buildings, all under the rubric of Ridgemont Typologies. The effect can be surprising, as we see our variety disappear into the dominant stylistic mode. There’s an artist statement here, if you’re interested. Now, I’ll let the images speak for him, only a couple of which I’ve excerpted below, linked to a larger array on his site.

I was struck the other day, after looking at Luthringer’s photos, at how uniform the newspaper announcement photos are of lawyers (and how uniform the lawyers) — you know the ones: “Rub Dub and Tub LLP is proud to announce that So Andso has been made partner…” and there’s poor So Andso hung out to dry in greyscale. So I grabbed a bunch of said pics off the Globe and Mail Announcement section and did a modest typology array of the repetitive elements myself.

And just in case you imagine that there really are no options for variety in appearance for the lawyer of today, take a look at a similar, but briefer, array I did of women lawyers’ photos.