Running the Numbers

Chris Jordan's new series looks at contemporary American culture through the austere lens of statistics. Each image portrays a specific quantity of something. For instance...

Cell Phones, 2007
60x100"

Depicts 426,000 cell phones, equal to the number of cell phones retired in the US every day.
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