Paul Redmond
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Most photographic documentation of dingbat apartments follow traditions primarily intended to capture architectural or graphic composition. In the photographic series included in Dingbat 2.0, “Micro-Modifications: Stories of Dingbat Dwellers,“ Los Angeles-based photographer Paul Redmond instead approaches the dingbat through its inhabitants, their stories, and their traces. By selecting one neighborhood and walking its streets, Redmond was able to meet residents and hear their perspectives on living in a dingbat.
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Deftly attuned to both narrative and physicality, Redmond’s photographs display the range of different lifestyles possible within a single building type—the minor adjustments necessary to make a space temporarily livable, the accumulations over time, and the more calculated planning of long term residents. The stories of these inhabitants relate typical narratives of apartment life as well as the more specific scenes of dingbat life in Los Angeles.
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