Chistopher Morris, "Tree Man", Nampa, Idaho, 30"x40", Archival Fujiflex High Gloss Aluminium mounted, from My America, pub. Steidl 2006

Christopher Morris: My America
February 2 – May 19, 2007 @ BMoCA

Christopher Morris is a photojournalist who began to take the fine-art pictures in his My America series while covering the 2000 presidential campaign for Time. The topic of My America, according to Morris, is the conjunction of “patriotism, politics and devotion.” Unlike his photojournalistic work, in which every effort is made to come up with a straightforward shot of his chosen subject, these images are often cropped in unexpected ways, as in “Cadet’s Lips, Philadelphia,” which shows only the bottom two-thirds of the face of a young military-school cadet, cutting out his eyes, or “Harrisburg,” a portrait of a man showing only his jacket, shirt, and tie.

— From Michael Paglia’s article Minimal to the Max