The two New York examples, spotted in Dumpsters in Coney Island and Brighton Beach, fall into the “in/as refuse” category. Montague’s photos, taken in five cities, will be shown at the Black and White Gallery, 636 West 28th Street, near 11th Avenue. Julian Montague, spent seven years photographing carts in dumpsters, in. How many people were involved, and is it in a permanent or ephemeral state?” Portraits of carts in the wild are also captured in the 2006 book The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America. And I like to speculate on what happened to the carts. “It affects your perceptions it brings this peripheral stuff into focus. “This language of scientific classification can be very powerful,” Mr. Happier subtypes, like “alternative usage” and “structurally modified,” are for carts adapted as things like souvenir stands or driveway barriers. His categories can be self-explanatory (“bus stop discard,” “plow crush”) or cryptic: “open true” (abandoned on pavement or lawn), “gap marginalization” (between buildings). Montague, utterly deadpan, classifies the artifacts by location type and likely cause of demise for a Web site (and in his new book, “The Stray Shopping Carts of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification” (Abrams Image). /rebates/2fThe-Stray-Shopping-Carts-of-Eastern-North-America-A-Guide-to-Field-Identification-Julian-Montague2fbook2f29392006&.
An artist who lives in Buffalo, he has also taken thousands of photographs of carts that ended up far from their original homes. JULIAN MONTAGUE has spent seven years spotting shopping carts buried in undergrowth or pond muck.
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