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<span class="text"><font color="#eeeeee" class="text"> <p> Robert Mead's architectural collection includes color and monochrome images and, interestingly, Mead uses two completely different styles when approaching the different media. The color photographs are of subjects as diverse as the Griffith Observatory, made famous by James Dean's Rebel Without a Cause, and a Malibu Pier. He's adopted an almost monochromatic palette with subtle lighting for these somewhat abstract images.<br /> When switching to monochrome, especially those made with infrared film, the compositions become grand, sweeping, and lushly romantic, almost as if the spirit of John Ford is informing the photographs. Mead's flower photographs are similar to others in the genre in that they are made close-up, but after that all bets are off. Mead uses a mixture of high-and low-key lighting techniques to infuse these delicately-colored images with an otherworldly mood and approach that's different from both types of his architectural photographs. Here, he's not a cool observer of the plant world and takes you inside these flowers to examine them; not in a scientific way, but as an aesthetic tool to render nature's designs in a purely emotional manner. These images are as different from his color architecture as possible, being hot, in McLuhan's terms, compared to the cool shapes and designs of the buildings.</p> <p><br /> Joe Farace Shutterbug Magazine November 2008 issue</p></font></span><br>
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