Michael Ormerod Color Photography
British, 1947-1991
Michael Ormerod was born in Cheshire in 1947. He lived in Newcastle but spent many years traveling to America. Fascinated by the American image, and following in the footsteps of Robert Frank, Ormerod took to the American West to find a washed-out dream of capitalism. His images capture a strange juxtaposition of an American beauty tainted by a hidden sense of menace and corruption. Inverting the famous Hollywood sign, Ormerod photographs a Texaco sign from the back, dominating the empty, Western landscape. His photographs are those of the outsider, constantly traveling through a no-man’s-land. Ormerod’s book, States of America, was published shortly after he died to mark an exhibition held at the Zelda & Cheatle Gallery, London. Since then, only one major exhibition of his work has taken place in Sheffield in 2003. A reappraisal of his powerful and uncompromising chronicle of America is long overdue.
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Artist: Michael Ormerod
Girl Blowing Bubble Gum, Wall, South Dakota - Michael Ormerod, Documentary
By Michael Ormerod
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Gas Station with Road - Michael Ormerod, America, 20th Century, USA, Nostalgia
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Child with Mask, Hillrose, Colorado - Michael Ormerod, Disguise, Country, USA
By Michael Ormerod
Located in Brighton, GB
Child with Mask, Hillrose, Colorado is a stunning Colour Print on Hahnemuehle Paper in an Edition of 20 in this size by photographer Michael Ormerod.
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Giant Women Signs - Michael Ormerod, USA, Travel photography, Documentary
By Michael Ormerod
Located in Brighton, GB
Giant Women Signs a stunning Colour Print on Hahnemuehle Paper in an Edition of 20 in this size by photographer Michael Ormerod.
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The body of work, States of America, is the photographic legacy of one of the UK’s leading photographic talents whose untimely death in 1991 ended prematurely the highly promising career of a distinctive and powerful photographic voice.
Michael Ormerod was born in Cheshire in 1947. He lived in Newcastle, but spent many years travelling America. Fascinated by the American image, and following in the footsteps of Robert Frank, Ormerod took to the American West to find a washed out dream of capitalism. His images capture a strange juxtaposition of an American beauty tainted by a hidden sense of menace and corruption.
The photographs are understated, but show an unseen America, where the industrial heartland is decaying, highways stand empty and towns are deserted. The subjects of Ormerod’s work are the disenfranchised. A teenager cycles through her neighbourhood wearing a Halloween-style hockey mask, a Native American man stands in a graveyard, their expressions are unreadable.
The work subverts traditional American icons. A white picket fence is staved in, a huge billboard for Miss Teen Dakota USA stands next to an empty highway. Inverting the famous Hollywood sign, Ormerod photographs a Texaco sign...
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1980s Contemporary Michael Ormerod Color Photography
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Drugs c.1989 - Michael Ormerod, Classic, Nostalgia, Travel, Documentary, Photo
By Michael Ormerod
Located in Brighton, GB
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Gold Car, Butte, Montana, 1986 - Michael Ormerod, USA, Travel photography
By Michael Ormerod
Located in Brighton, GB
Gold Car, Butte, Montana is a stunning Colour Print on Hahnemuehle Paper in an Edition of 20 in this size by photographer Michael Ormerod.
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Two Run-Down Fashion Shops - Michael Ormerod, Travel, Documentary photography
By Michael Ormerod
Located in Brighton, GB
Two Run-Down Fashion Shops is a stunning Colour Print on Hahnemuehle Paper in an Edition of 20 in this size by photographer Michael Ormerod.
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Sign by Empty Footpath - Michael Ormerod, Travel, Documentary, America, USA
By Michael Ormerod
Located in Brighton, GB
Sign by Empty Footpath is a stunning Colour Print on Hahnemuehle Paper in an Edition of 20 in this size by photographer Michael Ormerod.
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Deserted Streets with Shadows - Michael Ormerod, USA, Nostalgia, Travel
By Michael Ormerod
Located in Brighton, GB
Deserted Streets with Shadows is a stunning Colour Print on Hahnemuehle Paper in an Edition of 20 in this size by photographer Michael Ormerod.
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Purple Door, Montana, 1986 - Michael Ormerod, Travel, Documentary, USA, America
By Michael Ormerod
Located in Brighton, GB
Purple Door, Montana is a stunning Colour Print on Hahnemuehle Paper in an Edition of 20 in this size by photographer Michael Ormerod.
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Steppin' in High Fashions, Colorado - Michael Ormerod, USA, Travel, Photography
By Michael Ormerod
Located in Brighton, GB
Steppin' in High Fashions is a stunning Colour Print on Hahnemuehle Paper in an Edition of 20 in this size by photographer Michael Ormerod.
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Roadsign and Field - Michael Ormerod, Frontier, America, Abandoned, Boom
By Michael Ormerod
Located in Brighton, GB
Roadsign and Field is a stunning Colour Print on Hahnemuehle Paper in an Edition of 20 in this size by photographer Michael Ormerod.
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