doloresdepalabra:

french street artist JR has developed the campaign ‘wrinkles of the city’ pasted in los angeles, california, USA. JR first photographs  older individuals from the city taken at range of 28 millimeters, creating gigantic prints of these images which are then wheat-pasted  on to building exteriors in los angeles county. 

beginning early in 2012, the artist has introduced to the city several large-scale public installations picturing individuals from the area, celebrating their aged faces and stories. JR plans to show 20 separate pieces through out the sprawling metropolis. the intentionally apolitical  street artist leaves space for public interpretation— he presents a community within the massive, modern city and enables an encounter between  the subject and observer, grounding the passerby in the humanity and history of this stereotypically unforgiving city.

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