Men’s Jackets, Montgomery Wards, Dixie Square Mall, 2001
Unidentified Store No. 7, Dixie Square Mall, 2001
The photographic series shown above is from part of the Dixe Square Mall exhibiton. The Dixie Square mall is an abandoned enclosed shopping mall in the Chicago-land area. The mall was once very prosperous, but went out of buisiness in the late 70's . The mall has been empty for over 30 years, and is famous as the filming location for the chase scene in Blues Brothers.The history which remains is facsinating, including looting, illegal night demolition work, and attempted renovations. Despite good intentions, the mall still remains standing and decaying.
Trice takes an interesting photograph, but the history is what drew my attention to the series, and once I'm happy with my aestethics, I'll be trying to dig up the stories behind the closed service stations; when they closed, who owned them, what happened to the employees, etc.
Trice takes an interesting photograph, but the history is what drew my attention to the series, and once I'm happy with my aestethics, I'll be trying to dig up the stories behind the closed service stations; when they closed, who owned them, what happened to the employees, etc.
"In The Dixie Square Mall Series, Christopher Trice examines the space and socioeconomic import of a long-abandoned shopping center in one of Chicago’s south suburbs. Dangling wires, fallen ceiling tiles, and peeling wallpaper evidence the decay of otherwise familiar store interiors now ravaged by vandals and weather alike. Yet the attention to color and closely controlled composition of Trice’s photographs transcend the merely documentary, generating a beauty otherwise absent from this crumbling structure." - critic Kendra Greene
Museum of Contemporary Photography: http://www.mocp.org/collections/permanent/trice_christopher.php
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