08 February 2008

Skull With Cigarette, 2007

Chris Jordan 's Skull With Cigarette, based on Van Gogh's 1885 painting "Skull with Burning Cigarette", is made of images of 200,000 packs of cigarettes, equal to the number of Americans who die from cigarettes smoking every six months.






You can see more of his current photographic work, all of which deal in expressing large numbers relating to our daily lives through multiple images that combine into a larger visual piece.

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