Barrington Earle's images of industrial parks advance his visual and conceptual ideas, encompassing distant views along with close-ups of facades, and intimating Earle's affinity for European cinema and minimalism
Although Earle conducted a socioeconomic analysis of the development of Orange and Santa Clara counties, his photographs are deliberately uninformative, like the buildings themselves.
Contrasting new, information-based businesses with older manufacturing industries, Earle observed that they tend to have substantially lower pollution levels; are housed in inoffensive, anonymous structures, often with extensive landscaping; and area staffed by a small, technologically trained labor force.
Photography readily aestheticized the industrial parks, an effect Earle perceived and controlled. He had no wish to domesticate or critique these buildings through casual snapshot treatment, however, the results evince a convincing solidity of both surface and depth.