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Gallery: Nathan Baker's Rupture Series

These photographs are as much like my life (okay, more like my life) as any of the ship-shape homes we aspire to here on Apartment Therapy. Sometimes, these things just happen. Chicago photographer Nathan Baker has captured the essence of small home accidents in his series entitled Rupture, Part One...

 
 

Mundane drips, spills and imperfections are the subject of the series. I especially appreciate the "pot boiling over guy" looking completely defeated and the perfect contemporary interior complete with broken vase and offended homeowner. Some of these look all too familiar, don't they? See the rest of Baker's work at Kaune, Sudendorf, a gallery for contemporary photography.

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That pepto in #2 manages to be both gross and ominous. Personally my 'home accidents' always end up more epic than this (collapsed plaster ceilings, etc).

posted by ursamin*r on September 11th 2009 at 1:37pm
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The BBQ one is my fave.

posted by spinsLPs on September 11th 2009 at 1:39pm
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Looks like an average week chez moi.

posted by hrhprincessfiona on September 11th 2009 at 1:47pm
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Very cool stuff.

posted by stt64 on September 11th 2009 at 1:47pm
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Yes, the pot-boiling-over guy reminds me of... well, me..... with the recent episode I mentioned elsewhere, when I saw a possum sitting on the toilet in the middle of the night.

posted by btoddster on September 11th 2009 at 1:47pm
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Was that Dryer's (Eddie's) limited edition peppermint ice cream in the last shot??? What a waste!

posted by Comicgeek on September 11th 2009 at 1:50pm
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The one of the BBQ makes me sad...

posted by littlebrownbird on September 11th 2009 at 1:52pm
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This is real life. Life's messy....

posted by junklover on September 11th 2009 at 2:35pm
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I like the way the viewers look on helplessly.

posted by JoanneM on September 11th 2009 at 3:06pm
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haha, I love the one of the dude on the couch, all "um, that decorater-y thing full of tall grass just fell over...."

http://mylittleapartment.blogspot.com/

posted by my little apartment on September 11th 2009 at 3:07pm
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Indeed, life is messy, right now if you were to go into my apartment, you'd see my pullman still sitting in the floor of my, stuff tossed onto a chair, crap on the floor - all in the bedroom, dusty furniture, carpeting that needs stretching, some albums that need to be put away and recyclables to take to the dumpster but nothing that's spilled although I DO tend to splatter water when I wash dishes and then have to clean the floor afterwards.

Cooking always brings about their own messes - especially at the stove and I have chipped a bowl in my dinnerware I bought early this past winter and a couple of years ago, broke a wine glass, actually last year broke another one from a different set

I can never keep my desk neat and tidy for long. I get it all nice looking and 2 days later stuff piles up on it again. :-(

posted by ciddyguy on September 11th 2009 at 3:15pm
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BTW, love that kitchen shot of the pot boiling over, it's the decrepid stove that still works, the ancient but dirty fridge stuff scattered all over the table and another table where dishes are stacked next to an industrial type sink and then the guy looking defeated as his dinner boils over.

posted by ciddyguy on September 11th 2009 at 3:16pm
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EXACTLY.

posted by rosenatti on September 11th 2009 at 3:47pm
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I love how they're all just staring at the mess, like, "Fuuuuuck." That's totally what happens in real life, you're just resigned.

posted by clampers on September 11th 2009 at 3:51pm
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I so know how that feels!

posted by Battling Betty on September 11th 2009 at 4:48pm
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I actually met Nathan, he came to our class to chat, pretty cool guy. What is especially great about these images is he uses a 4x5 large format camera to "capture" these moments, in reality they are completely set up and take a lot of time to actually acheive that 'oh crap' moment. I think the next series he was working on was taking images of just the object in distress without the people, but at the time he had no idea where he was going with it.

posted by mmvs on September 11th 2009 at 9:17pm
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hmm just took a look at the photos posted, he must have combined the series, sorry about that!

posted by mmvs on September 11th 2009 at 9:19pm
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