STRATA PHOTOGRAPHY BY DANIEL PELLIGRINE
STRATA
Š 2013 Daniel Pelligrine
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STRATA PHOTOGRAPHY BY DANIEL PELLIGRINE
FOR MY MOM AND DAD. THANK YOU.
CONTENTS FOREWARD
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UTOPIA
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IMPERIUM
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HELLFORGE
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BENEATH
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ENTROPY
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FOREWARD Man is the embodiment of both the creator and the form destroyer. We work tirelessly too lessen the effects of decay across our vast cities, while constructing increasingly more centers of habitation and commerce. The cosmic forces of entropy and birth, played out across the soaring steel and brickwork of an entire metropolis. That is what this book contains; a visual progression of the duality of the universe, from form creation to form destruction, in the city of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. This is by no means a religious or philosophical treatise. That being said, the conclusions you choose to draw from these photographs is entirely your own, but if they are anything like the feelings and emotions I experienced while photographing these many locations, then I know you will have no trouble drawing parallels between the photographs in this book and many theories first postulated by thinkers of the Enlightenment. It was a medieval theologian though, Augustine of Hippo, who said that human history consists of a conflict between the City of Man and the City of God and that the only way to enter the City of God was to willingly choose to forget the pleasures of Earth and devote themselves to the eternal truths of God. To him this struggle was cast in black and white, good pitted against evil. But perhaps it is not, despite the dualism presented in this book. Perhaps the destruction of form, decay, is just as righteously driven as the birth of form, and the lessening of decay. Perhaps it is the conflict itself that sustains us.
UTOPIA
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IMPERIUM
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HELLFORGE
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BENEATH
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ENTROPY
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