Lobbying

Here’s an image familiar to any West Ender (or South Granviller), even if you’ve never been in the apartment building:

.

.

You can find this image by Chris Gergley and several other examples of West End lobbies of a certain age at Junk Culture – or a complete set at Beyond Vague Terrain, discussed below.

Here’s the bumph (warning: metaphor alert):

For his “Vancouver Apartments” series photographer Chris Gergley documented apartment blocks built between 1950 and 1970 between Davie and Beach in Vancouver. The photographs that make up this series bear a striking similarity to the others while revealing the differences particular to each one. By presenting the lobbies of apartments visible behind glass entrances, variations in décor, lighting, colour and ‘personality’ emerge from banal mid-century architecture, becoming metaphorical of human beings’ simultaneous unity and individuality.