Roger Minick, Young Man at Niagara Falls, NY, 1999 Virtual Museum of Canada
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In this image, the artist depicts a young man's interaction with a popular tourists site. He sits on his red bicycle, in shorts and t-shirt, looking out over Niagara Falls in New York. He is wearing headphones and casually leans against a set of coin-operated binoculars.

Roger Minick, Young Man at Niagara Falls, NY, 1999   (112 KB)

In this photo, Young Man at Niagara Falls NY 1999, Niagara Falls becomes even less than a pretty backdrop for a snapshot, it is merely another image to be passively taken in and compared to thousands of mental images of Niagara Falls harvested from glossy brochures and broadcast media.

Roger Minick was born in Ramona, Oklahoma in 1944. He is a photographer who is currently based in California.


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