At a time when many are questioning whether we need offices at all, photographer Steven Ahlgren's archival images of American workplaces are a reminder of a not-too-distant past.
Among US workers able to perform their jobs from home, almost six in 10 now do so most, or all, of the time, according to a Pew Research Centerpublished in February. Of those, only 42% cite the coronavirus as a major reason, with over three-quarters saying they simply prefer it.
"I would say to them, 'Just do whatever you normally do, and I'm going to watch and take some pictures,'" he said via video call from his home in Media, Pennsylvania, adding:"I would just sit and just watch." "I had some bitterness from the years I spent in banking, and I felt it was wasted time," he added."So, when I started I thought, 'Here are people wasting their lives, just like I was.' But then I began to really empathize with them. They may have loved their work."Indeed, viewed through today's lens, the ostensibly drab scenes offer a compelling case for the death of offices as we knew them.
In the 1980s, Ahlgren -- then increasingly bored by his work as a banker in Minneapolis, Minnesota -- would make regular trips to the nearby Walker Art Center, where the painting is usually housed."It just kind of clawed at me, and I kept coming back to it," he said of Hopper's artwork.
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