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
Girl Blowing Bubble Gum, Wall, South Dakota, 1986 - Color Photographic Print
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'Water Trails down Empty Street in front of Water Tower' by Michael Ormerod.
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1980s Contemporary Michael Ormerod Portrait Photography
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Water Trails Down Empty Street in Front of Water Tower - Black and White Print
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Child with Mask, Hillrose, Colorado, 1989 - Color Print on Hahnemuhle Paper
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Man with Newspaper, 1989 - Black and White Photographic Print on Hahnemuhle
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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
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Man and Red Arrow - Color Print on Hahnemuhle Paper
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Sandwich board in Street - Black and White Photographic Print
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Located in Brighton, GB
Sandwich Board in Street is a Black & White print on Hahnemuehle Paper available In this size of 24” x 34” in an edition of 10.
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Man Walking in Front of Building, Houston - Black and White Photographic Print
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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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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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Photographic Paper, Color
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