Jazz Improvisation is a series of 4 books edited by pianist, composer, lecturer, and critic John Mehegan between 1959 and 1965. Today considered … [Read more...]
Jeff Wall, Study for ‘A Sudden Gust of Wind (After Hokusai)’, (1993)
There's a fine line between fact and fiction, between a moment and a perfect representation of that moment. Melissa Denes, Picture Perfect, the … [Read more...]
Forgotten Corners, by Andrew G. Fisher
Andrew G. Fisher is an artist who opens a constant relationship between two media, photography and illustration. Time is frozen in black and white … [Read more...]
Embracing Landscapes: “Mimesis” (1972-1973) by Barbara and Michael Leisgen
Barbara and Michael Leisgen are a couple of German artists working at the intersection between photography, performance art and land-art since the … [Read more...]
Reinventing Suburban Reality: “Constructed” by Pawel Nolbert
"Constructed" is a series of photos by Polish graphic designer, illustrator, and web designer Pawel Nolbert. A selection of the artist's own travel … [Read more...]
Ordinary Buildings, Reassembled by Oliver Michaels
English photographer Oliver Michaels creates images through the composition of different architectural elements as found in specific places. The … [Read more...]
Perspective Corrections, by Jan Dibbets (1967-1969)
Between 1967 and 1969, Dutch conceptual artist Jan Dibbets created a series of works, consisting of photographs of walls, floors and lawns, titled … [Read more...]
Constructing a False Reality: Chris Engman’s Photographs
Chris Engman is a photographer who creates installations and constructions in the landscape and inside preexisting architecture and then captures them … [Read more...]
When Geometry Comes to Life: “Somnium” by Laurent Millet (2014)
Laurent Millet is a French artist, whose work we already wrote about, who combines sculpture and drawing with the medium of photography. His 2014 … [Read more...]
Absence of Style: Lewis Baltz and the New Topographics
The exhibition "New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape" represented a paradigm shift in the history of photography. Nine then young … [Read more...]
Atlas Photographique de la Lune (1899)
This moon atlas was published by L'Observatoire de Paris in 1899 and edited by Maurice (Moritz) Loewy. The following are the Cover, the Title Page … [Read more...]
Hans Hollein’s Alles Ist Architektur (1968)
“Everything is architecture“, Hans Hollein announced in the 1968 (1/2) edition of the “Bau“ journal. As correctly explained by Ethel Baraona, he was … [Read more...]
About Metropolis
Metropolis is probably the film that set a standard for 20th century science fiction. The futuristic urban dystopia depicted by Austrian director … [Read more...]
Tropicomania: “The Social Life of Plants” at Betonsalon, Paris
This exhibition at the Betonsalon Art Center in Paris tries to address the socio-economic, cultural and political implications behind the worldwide … [Read more...]
Miracle at the Vistula, by Simone de Iacobis
Our friend and school colleague Simone de Iacobis lives and works in Poland as an architect and photographer. Miracle at the Vistula is his recent … [Read more...]
Studio Magazine features “Tower of Joy”, by Leopold Lambert
Check out this interesting episode in digital and on paper architectural zines world: Studio Magazine. Last issue (01), entitled [from] CRISIS … [Read more...]
Findings on Elasticity, Lars Müller Publishers
208 pp / 200 x 270 mm / paperback / english publisher: Lars Müller Publishers author: Hester Aardse, Astrid van Baalen year: 2010 collaborator: … [Read more...]
Maria Luisa Corapi’s “Davanti a un’opera” (Facing an artwork)
Maria Luisa Corapi's series of photographs "Davanti a un'opera" (Facing an artwork), explores that instantaneous relationship occurring between an … [Read more...]
“Images drifting into the distance”, a cycle of conferences, debates, meetings, by Benoit Peeters
The Centre Pompidou program of evenings during the last three months of this year is particularly rich (Anri Sala, Kusama, Matali Crasset among … [Read more...]
Same place, many years before 9/11
"When I see three oranges, I juggle; when I see two towers, I walk." Philippe Petit's 1974 high wire performance between the two towers of the … [Read more...]
Art inspired by, or depicting Riots
We're open to further contributions. “The Battle of Orgreave“, 2001 by Jeremy Deller. A large scale performance re-enacting a confrontation … [Read more...]
ArchiZines
ARCHI ZINES is a showcase of new fanzines, journals and magazines from around the world that provide an alternative discourse to the established … [Read more...]
Human Landscape
Florida housing view from above. On Big Picture, of course. Click here for more. Bonus: (Arcade Fire, Sprawl I - … [Read more...]
Pictures from a vanished country
The fall of the Iron Curtain in pictures Via: Kottke. … [Read more...]
