![]() ![]() "They've just been Joe Blow living in a house for years and don't see it as a historical item in itself," Kirk said. His photos bear the hallmarks of the post-modern period, where images show houses complete with a white lion sitting atop a brick fence, a Corinthian pillar, or a multitude of classical arches.įor years, Kirk has gained access to houses and their inhabitants through word of mouth and his work has been described as a process of capturing a "vanishing suburbia". Warren Kirk is a Melbourne-based photographer whose work has documented this era of Australian suburbia, initially catching the attention of people on Flickr before being published in photobook form. ![]() ![]() (Warren Kirk)ĭuring the post-modern period, various periods of culture - from the Baroque to the neo-classical- were mixed together to create new forms of cultural expression, often done with an ironic wink. This mid-Victorian house in inner Melbourne subsequently went through a number of post-modern revisions. ![]()
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