Urban Inversions in Monochrome

Description of this Gallery

This portfolio dates back to the beginning of Lawrence’s career at the time he first lived in Milwaukee.  It started out as  monochrome work and morphed into color fifteen  years later.    The monochrome work took place when the Midwest industrial base was still strong but by the late 1970s that had changed.  Along with that change Lawrence  moved on to color.  In effect the project canvased a generation in which Milwaukee switched from an industrial base to a financial one.  It was an entropy/rebirth that inverted the urban area’s economy.  The images captured a non-judgmental sense of that transition by primarily looking at it’s disappearing urban elements.   Often those elements offered a romantic and textured vision to define the times.