“When I was in middle school, my English teacher emphasized the fact that ‘the Eiffel Tower’ must be capitalized and accompanied with a definite article, the, in English grammar.”
Han Sungpil presents an interesting project of diptychs over at Lens Culture, built upon some sophisticated thinking about originality.
Kiss Concert Parking Area
Edward Burtynsky’s new work, Oil, is on the move, currently in New York’s Hasted Hunt Kraeutler Gallery and DC’s Corcoran, and soon to appear in Amsterdam at Huis Marseille. Down the calendar a bit, shows are scheduled in Canada and Scotland, as well. You can get the idea from his website, linked below, but of course you really need to be in the room with these large prints for maximum effect.
This is like jjjjound without the materialism, and with a slightly darker taste. Both favorite brainbreakfasts. What’s in a name, hey?
I cannot believe I briefly forgot about The Places We Live. This website made an enormous impact on me when it launched last year. It’s a great use of the medium: award-winning Magnum photographer Jonas Bendiksen captures startling imagery from slums around the world, and these are married with sounds and voices from the locations telling the stories of the families and individuals featured in the photos. You can navigate the 360 degree perspectives interactively.
To quote Aperture: “For the first time in history, more people live in cities than in rural areas. One-third of those city dwellers—over a billion people—live in slums, mostly in the rapidly urbanising cities of Africa and Asia. Slums have become the fastest growing human habitat in the world.”
I was reminded of this important work recently, thanks to coverage of the National Building Museum’s presentation of Bendiksen’s touring multimedia exhibit, developed in conjunction with the Nobel Peace Centre in Oslo. The exhibit is on view at the Museum until January 15, 2010.
If you are happy with your current intake of shelter blogs and mags, do not visit The Places We Live. You really can’t look at lush photos of architecture and decor the same way afterward.
Untitled, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, 1959
“A steadily growing digital image sampler and browsing resource from the vast photography holdings of George Eastman House.”
Begin spending here.
“Every architect practicing today has to somehow resolve the mythology that Julius Shulman captured for us.”
This will be one of those documentaries that will make me simultaneously inspired and overwhelmed. Can’t wait, sort of. Brought to my attention by those smarties at It’s Nice That.
Maarigje de Maar has been shooting private homes since 2002, on colour negative, using available light and without changing the subjects at all.
photograph by Paolo Roversi, from W Magazine
Mm, I was in the mood for the dark mustiness of this today. Fall can bring out my inner goth, on the overcast days at least. The behind the scenes video is brief and enjoyable, too.
(Michael Kenna, Above the Abreuvoir, Marly France, 1996)
I think it’s the fog and the clouds, this time of the year, round here. The trees, of course, are enigmatic wonders year-round. Kenna says he likes to spend a lot of time with trees, getting to know them, and that he will return to the same tree again and again over time. See his work right now at Kushiro Art Museum, Kushiro, Hokkaido, Japan and Box Gallery in Brussels, Belgium. Or soon in Paris, at either Camera Obscura Gallery or the Bibliotheque Nationale. Or next year in Italy and the USA. And not that it is just or reasonable to look at exquisite, medium format long exposures on the internet, but if you can’t make Japan, Belgium or France…
Okay, maybe it’s not exactly a fire sale, but Chris Floyd’s experiment with pricing is something I hope will catch on like a house on fire, how about that?
The series is grand, I think (and look how great this particular one sits under my header!), and you don’t have to visit Gracelands to buy in – they are also available online. I shall waste no more time typing details which can be had at the source of my original viewing, Wallpaper.
Even More Legendary 
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