Thom pointed out that there's an exhibit that's just started at the de Young museum in San Francisco, California, featuring decades of photographs of signs by famous (and not-so-famous) American photographers like Walker Evans, Lee Friedlander, and Ed Ruscha.
It's interesting to me that the description of the exhibit says that, within the "sensory overload" of the metropolis, the ubiquitous signs contribute to the "visual anarchy" of the scene. I wonder how signs and 'urban visual anarchy' in a broader sense fit into the photographic traditions in other countries...any good websites or texts out there?
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