John Schott

John Schott was also in the New topographics exhibition.  He too produced a project on the lines of the way I want to go with my Subject.  He quite famously took a series of images a long the Route 66 in Los Angeles.  All of Motels and all different angles but of the front of the motel.

I love looking at all of these images next each other as it make me wonder where all the people are.  It made all of these look like ghost towns with not a single living thing around.  This is also what I think is very interesting about the project but they all just look so empty.  Definitely a good one for my project though.  The amount of dead pan in this is about as deadpan as you can get with man altered landscapes. I think certain images in this series look like they could be owned by completely different people to be designed in different ways. 

 I like the fact that within these images I like to think that the owners of the properties are completely different types of people, each Motel along Route 66 looks different from another but are the same thing.  This is where the documenting comes into it,  whatever I choose to do for my final 6 images will be documenting, and definitely within my context of the same difference.  I would like to find a particular building or shape to work with and use that through my project.

 Below I have two larger images, I have shown these two larger because I feel they are the only two images out of the whole series that actually look similar.  If you were in London England, and focused on say, The Best Western hotels, everywhere you go they are exactly the same, and near enough the same layout.  Yes every building is unique but the buildings of todays companies are all the same, obviously each of these motels are each individual motels, therefore have no need to look the same.  It might even be the fact that it most of the motels looked the same then people would want to find a different one, I know I probably would.  Some people take into consideration that the way a layout is of a building or placings of furniture inside could tell what a person is like, personalities show in a living place and you'd think these two below would be similar kinds of people.

I think what I would take from John Schott's work is that whatever my actual subject matter may become, each image, if of a property might be able to tell a personality of whoever lives there.