George L Stein is a writer and photographer in the New Jersey/New York metropolitan area. Interest in monochrome, film and digital photography and urban decay/architectural subject matter has come to include street photography, fashion, fetish, collage, and oppositiional/juxtapositional projects in digital format. His work has been published in Midwest Gothic, NUNUM, Montana Mouthful, The Showbear Family Circus, Out/Cast, The Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review, and DarkSide magazine.

13, modern american gothic, draws on the classic, grant wood source material, american gothic, but represents the imprecision in modern concepts of gender, family, purity, roles and stereotypes.

30a, barn encounter, this is connected to my modern american gothic sequence, in this case, man/woman and animal’s roles are not so clearly defined as well, and then there’s the imposition of the church for another mule-kick.

35 new fin, modern american pastoral, is about juxtapositions, the field of corn divided by the line of wind turbines, another type of farming, nevertheless, somewhat visually jarring. That’s my son Desmond, in those strongly colored fields, which is meant to convey something of a bucolic/idealized farm scene in front of the landscape.

802a_300, scarecrow, I like the unrealistic arm pose among the harvested field, I think the figure is playing the reaper after the reaping is done. What is left to take?

911b_300 , dervish, another combination of some of the elements touched on above, the fields, the chaotix figure, the jarring line of wind turbines…. an alternate version of the themes in the above two.