Across suburban America, on cruise ships, in highly conceptualized shopping malls, fast food restaurants, hotel lobbies, and movie theaters, modern architecture and design have attempted to construct a cheap beauty. The interior spaces in these photographs reflect the attempt – and the failure – to use design as a means to ameliorate the desolation and impersonality of suburban and ex-urban living.

Beyond documenting this failure, however, the photographs are independent visual realities. Although the interior spaces represented in the images fail to construct beauty out of plastic and latex, the photographs are uniquely able to accomplish this construction. Through meticulous, almost architectural composition and through use of light and color, the photographs succeed in constructing the beauty absent in the spaces themselves.  The photographs have their own architecture, transforming the interiors that are their subject matter and the medium of photography itself.

Sachs uses a 4x5 camera and color film.