Staff Blog
Checking out Spring Garden Market
Thursday, December 20th, 2007 at 1:50 pm
posted by Drew Lazor
categories Bite This
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| James Saul |
Thanks to CP contributor James Saul for passing along some great shots of the brand-new Spring Garden Market (215-928-1288), which officially opened last weekend at the corner of Fourth and Spring Garden (across-ish from Silk City, the site of last night's raucous CP holiday shindig). We'll have more on the place in next week's Feeding Frenzy, but in the meantime, follow the jump for a few more images. And check out James' site, dammit.
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| James Saul |
[...] Around the time Rick was leaving CP, James David Saul was just getting started, first as Mike Regan’s intern, then as a music intern, then a general contributing writer and photographer; he most recently showed up on The Clog with tasty visuals of the Spring Garden Market. James’ wanderings have stuck primarily to the North American continent, and his self-titled show at 1 Shot Coffee, 601 Liberties Walk gives even portions of people and landscapes; there’s mountain vistas and ghostly pigeons (see above) alongside kids partying at Space Jam. One particularly striking shot can be read as man invading the land: a long perspective on massive oil pipelines that run through evergreen woods in the Puget Sound region (the area where Twin Peaks was shot, the photographer points out). Nature still lifes are one of the hardest things for me to get into, and the placid lakeside shots in this show didn’t do much for me. But the way James composed the stratified rock faces in South Dakota’s Badlands National Park seemed almost multi-dimensional, a box containing layers of dead hills in front of layers of dead hills. Anybody who’s ever been to the park will immediately relate to the broad expanse of nothingness, if you’ll pardon me sounding like a philosophizing windbag. While James’ shots from the road seem to tread lightly, almost timidly, his shots from back home display a clear sense of comfort, whether its a chaotic An Albatross crowd or a man quietly touching up a Kensington mural. [...]