night, and bankrupt, shuttered shops. Not just personal investigations of ruined places, his images are studies of the formal properties of crushed automobiles, of steel shavings, of torn paper, of discarded shoes and items of clothing, of weeds growing through fences and in the hallways of emptied buildings. They fixate upon the waste products of American industry and draw our attention toward the debris that accompanies hurried exits or evictions, the visual culture of late capitalism’s ruins.
