Michael Ormerod Portrait 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
Bucking Bronco - Black and White Monochrome Large Photographic Print
By Michael Ormerod
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Sta...
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Water Trails Down Empty Street in Front of Water Tower - American Landscape
By Michael Ormerod
Located in Brighton, GB
'Water Trails down Empty Street in front of Water Tower' by Michael Ormerod.
Water Trails down Empty Street in front of Water Tower is a black and white photographic print on Hahn...
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20th Century American Realist Michael Ormerod Portrait Photography
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Boy and Men on Horses - Black and White Photographic Print on Hahnemuhle Paper
By Michael Ormerod
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Boy and Men on Horses is a stunning Black and White photographic print on Hahnemuhle Paper, in this size of 24” x 34” in an edition of 10.
States of America is the photographic lega...
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1980s Contemporary Michael Ormerod Portrait Photography
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Photographic Paper, Black and White
Water Trails Down Empty Street in Front of Water Tower - Black and White Print
By Michael Ormerod
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20th Century American Realist Michael Ormerod Portrait Photography
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Sandwich board in Street - Black and White Photographic Print
By Michael Ormerod
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Child with Mask, Hillrose, Colorado, 1989 - Color Print on Hahnemuhle Paper
By Michael Ormerod
Located in Brighton, GB
Child with Mask, Hillrose, Colorado is a stunning Colour Print on Hahnemuhle Paper in an Edition of 20 in this size of 20" x 24".
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1980s Contemporary Michael Ormerod Portrait Photography
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Color, Photographic Paper
African American Man on Street, 1989 - Black and White Photographic Print
By Michael Ormerod
Located in Brighton, GB
African American Man on Street is a dramatic Black & White photographic print on Hahnemuhle Paper available in this size in an Edition of 10.
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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20th Century Contemporary Michael Ormerod Portrait Photography
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Man with Newspaper, 1989 - Black and White Photographic Print on Hahnemuhle
By Michael Ormerod
Located in Brighton, GB
Man with Newspaper is a Black & White print on Hahnemuehle Paper in this size of 24” x 34” in an edition of 10.
Michael Ormerod was a British photographer with a distinct and powerf...
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1980s Contemporary Michael Ormerod Portrait Photography
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Cars and Sheep, 1989 - Black and White Monochrome Large Photographic Print
By Michael Ormerod
Located in Brighton, GB
Cars and Sheep by Michael Ormerod is a 24" x 34" black and white photographic print in an edition of 10.
Michael Ormerod was a British photographer with a distinct and powerful voic...
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20th Century American Realist Michael Ormerod Portrait Photography
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Man and Red Arrow - Color Print on Hahnemuhle Paper
By Michael Ormerod
Located in Brighton, GB
Man and Red Arrowby Michael Ormerod is a stunning Colour Print on Hahnemuehle Paper in an Edition of 20 in this size of 20" x 24".
States of America:
The body of work, States of Am...
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1980s Contemporary Michael Ormerod Portrait Photography
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Man Walking in Front of Building, Houston - Black and White Photographic Print
By Michael Ormerod
Located in Brighton, GB
Man Walking in Front of Building, Houston is a stunning Black & White print on Hahnemuehle Paper available In this size of 24” x 34” in an edition of 10.
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20th Century Contemporary Michael Ormerod Portrait Photography
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Black and White, Photographic Paper
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