Wedding Dresses, Columbus, Mississippi by Kate Bingaman
Kate Bingaman
Currently residing in: Starkville, MS
Website: http://www.obsessiveconsumption.com
Work Statement:
I take photos of consumption. I started by taking photographs of my trash and other people's trash and then moved to taking photographs of everything that I bought (for 28 months). I take pictures in thrift stores, empty stores, full stores and people in stores. I don't think I will stop.
The photos I am submitting were taken in an empty K-Mart in Lincoln, Nebraska, a shopping cart factory in Plattsmouth, Nebraska and a thrift store in Columbus, Mississippi.
Bio:
I was born in Wisconsin, grew up in Missouri, worked as a graphic designer in Omaha, received my MFA at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln in 2004 and am now an Assistant Professor of Graphic Design at Mississippi State University.
I started taking pictures when my mom gave me a camera when I was eight. I mostly took pictures of Saturday morning cartoons.
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Kate I still have the little duck you needle pointed for me in 5th grade. I ran into your Mom and Wally World Friday nite Dec. 22,2006. She told me how to find your web site I'm so very proud of you. Just had to write and say " you go girl", you know what I remember . What a wonderful reader you were . And How much you liked the New York Hot Dogs we made in class as we read one of the stories assigned about a boy who befriended a Hanson Driver . Keep me posted I've always wanted to visit Mississippi my Masters is in History and I love Southern History Civil War Era.
Later, Paula Bryan (I retired last year.) bryanengr@aol.com