Dan Graham's 'Homes for America'

I have been obsessed with this project of Graham's for ages. Essentially bare, it's a series of photographs of tract housing in the U.S. circa '69. Why would someone not from Germany embark on a serious bit of architecture photography couched in laconicism?

Graham didn't want to take photos of architecture for the buildings' sake. He was more concerned with offering a switch between the two then dominant forms of art making: minimalism and pop.

Quoting from what he found before him was a nod in the direction of pop, and minimalism, which was concerned with 'the cultural infrastructure of design', rears it's cuboid white head in the artlessness and serialisation of the architecture's appearance in the series.

Those qualities are cool and clever, but what's really fucking top is the relationship which Graham implies between photography and modern art through what he photographs, how he photographs it and where the photos appeared in their most influential form(in magazines). I think that Paul Graham realised that when changing contexts photos changed their nature entirely. This was unclear to the rest of his peers I think.