Deadpan Photography: Enjoying the Pretence

🫧 Open on Bubbles Juliette wrote last week about Deadpan photography . I was intrigued because it’s a term I had seen start appearing all over the place lately and I wasn’t sure what it was. So I did a deep dive to understand for myself (unpublished on Substack as it’s not an opinion piece). But in turn it got me thinking about what Deadpan was doing and how. Andreas Gursky, 99 Cent (1999), image found on Flikr Look at Andreas Gursky’s 99 Cent . Let your eye travel along those shelves. Notice the grid, the