To bend the truth of reality to conjure a new image with more honesty than one would expect, is pretty fascinating and a powerful tool, if done right. Gursky manipulates images by taking them the old fashion way (film) and then digitally altering it but not to a beneficial cliche of making it over the top or just pure bullshit, but to create a new view from an honest stand point and opinion. The truth can't always be in black and white so Gursky takes it upon himself to take the aspect of a true image and synthetically make it grander by making it fake but ending with the result of a truer photograph then with the alternative. With globalization being everywhere (hence the word, "global") the world is just turning into a giant conveyor belt and people are just wondering where they're going to place it. Some of the landmarks we create are almost legendary and iconic on it's own structure or what is provided inside and a sense of worship and self pats on the back encourage us to keep building and creating, but then again, who doesn't like making something special and then outdoing themselves?

We're in a country that thrives on being bigger and better and when some says we can't get any bigger or better we tend to say, "Fuck that!" and prove them wrong. And to show that wealth and power we transcend it all around and keep building and rebuilding. Sekula took photographs to show the present state of where it's all going and how this country was getting bigger and badder but not in an equal tone. When bigger and badder buildings are made some are too close to the smaller and less shiny ones. Some stores, malls, hotels, etc. are built with a bigger dick and sadly that leads to the smaller competitors to get fucked by these big dicked stores. Locations get shut down and people lose jobs. Money down the drain and time well spent (sarcasm placed here). Sekula shows in Fish Story a bankrupt shipyard, which can show all the jobs lost and all hopes of a raise for a worker rapidly fleeting. The United States is the new Roman Empire and we have to be careful as to who we fuck (take it how you want it) and where/how we spill our guts because we make things better but sacrifice bystanders and nay sayers for something that may or may not be worth it.