Barbie Dolls depicts 32,000 barbies, equal to the number of elective breast augmentation surgeries performed monthly in the US in 2006.
The work of photographer Chris Jordan examines American consumption - his latest series of photographs ‘Running The Numbers’ looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something: fifteen million sheets of office paper (five minutes of paper use); 106,000 aluminum cans (thirty seconds of can consumption) and so on. Jordan’s hope is that images representing these quantities might have a different effect than the raw numbers alone. (via)
