The Photographer Edward Ruscha portrays the lack of adventure in Suburban America through a black and white colored image of the State Department of Employment. Ruscha uses a black and white color scheme that emphasizes certain symbols of the parking lots to show the repetitiveness and guidance that Suburban America bestows upon its inhabitants. These notions contribute to the numbing experience of Suburbia induced by a lack of adventure and completely contradict Walt Whitman’s view of the ideal American in “Pioneers! O Pioneers!”.
The repetitiveness of Suburban life is symbolically displayed in Ruscha’s State Department of Employment photo through the wear and tear of the roads and parking spaces. He intentionally uses a black and white color