Billboards as art

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British photographer Stephen Gill started making the truly beautiful Billboards series in 2004 , where he only depicts the structures behind them and the ad messages. This is not only a brilliant document of our times but the photographs are so immensely captivating in themselves, so detailed that they convey a sense of nudity while still reflecting humor and tenderness. Check here for the Design Observer review.

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A dying art

A third generation billboard painter speaks about his dying profession.

It takes him about a day and a half to paint a billboard, about a half day longer than it used to. Most of his joints now ache from the work, he said. "I have no fear of heights and it's very relaxing up there," he said. "And it's art."

No surprise, heckling comes with roadside work.

"It's crooked, or you missed a spot," Dickinson said are common shouts from passing motorists. "I've been hearing it for 25 years."

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