200,000 Packs of Cigarettes
April 10th, 2008 by misvan
That’s how many cigarette packs artist Chris Jordan used to make his latest work, “Skull with Cigarette.”
It’s also equal to the number of Americans who die from cigarette smoking every 6 months.
This piece is part of Jordan’s photographic series entitled Running the Numbers: an American Self-Portrait visually examines the vast and bizarre measures of our society, in large intricately detailed prints assembled from thousands of smaller photographs.
Skull With Cigarette, 2007 [based on a painting by Van Gogh] 72×98″
See his portfolio to look at other stunning statistical visualizations.
[via Direct Infections]
That’s not a cigy hes smokin’
WOW, his portfolio’s amasing.
Nice work!
He Bought 200,000 packages of cigarettes? Quite a boost for the industry!
Ha, I doubt that he bought all those packs. I tried to look for an explanation on how he composes these pieces. It seems like he might have built the piece as a grid of photographs of maybe a hundred packs composed in different ways. Anyone happen to know how he made this?
Wow, this is really impressive. Kudos to Chris Jordan.
This seems to be done digitally, since all those images of the packs are exactly the same without any variation between them. If it was an actual physical piece then I’m sure we’d see a picture of it from an angle or with a person nearby to illustrate size.
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