Joe Stevens provides ample evidence with his project ‘Vans and the Places They Were’ of the power of visual repetition:

From the artist: “‘Vans and the places they were’ documents surviving custom and conversion vans across the West and examines the dialogue which exists between a van’s design aesthetic and that of its surrounding environment. The project began in 1996 and currently consists of hundreds of images shot on 120 film.”

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