agritecture

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About agritecture

The rural American landscape is studded with agricultural structures -- granaries, silos, grain elevators, gins, mills, barns, and so on ...

Charles DeMuth, the noted American Precisionist, was only one artist who documented our agricultural architecture ... but it was his painting, My Egypt, that inspired me to shoot my first grain elevators. As DeMuth implied with his title, agricultural monoliths are potent cultural symbols in America.

It's easy to be moved by a lonely country barn weathering in an open field, and I love to see their images - they bring to mind an independent spirit and a work ethic we rarely see anymore. Gins and mills likewise speak to our agricultural hertiage. Even the more industrial, impersonal structures like grain elevators can be quite evocative.

Agricultural architecture lends itself to all kinds of photographic approaches. If you've been inspired to photograph "agritecture" of any kind (here in the U.S. or in Canada) please share it with us. Your own or collected art/illustration is also appropriate, providing it features agricultural structure as its main focus.