CONSUMING ICONS
Since the 1980s Robert Walker has been fascinated by colour. Inspired by Pop Art artists like Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenburg, for years he has photographed the street scene in large cities like New York, where advertising on façades, in shop windows and on billboards must fight for attention. In these photographs, which have appeared in the book Color is Power (2002), among other places, commerce declares its power over the street in bright lights and screaming colours. In Las Vegas Walker (b. 1945) documented another aspect of visual pushiness. The city, known for its casinos, is dominated by colossal copies of famous buildings.
