Category: artworks

• window shopping #1 (Amsterdam)

  I am far from the first to photograph shop windows. The camera captures what our brains, navigating the urban landscape, habitually filter out: the melding of the displays behind the glass with reflections from the street that produces beguiling and sometimes disturbingly surreal landscapes. Eugène Atget’s “Boulevard de Strasbourg: Corsets” (1912) and “Magasin, avenue des…

  dereksayer

  March 23, 2023

  artworks, cities, people, photographers, reflections, sex, shop windows, street photography, surrealism

  Amsterdam

• statuesque

  Barcelona, April 2015. 1st image is Georg Kolbe’s statue “Dawn” in Mies van der Rohe’s (reconstructed) Barcelona pavilion. Mexico City, February 2018. Parque México (Fuente de los Cántaros, [Fountain of the Pitchers] by José María Fernández Urbina), Museo Soumaya, Palacio de Bellas Artes, street in Condesa district. Wrest Park, Bedfordshire, England, April 2018 Wrest Park…

  dereksayer

  March 17, 2023

  adverts, artworks, cities, exhibitions, graffiti, monuments, murals, museums, photographers, posters, sculptures, shop windows

  Barcelona, London, Mexico City, Sevilla, Wrest Park

• Museo Ruffino Tamayo

  Designed by Teodoro González de León and Abraham Zabludovsky, the Museo Ruffino Tamayo in Mexico City is as remarkable for its architecture as its permanent collection of works by Tamayo and other contemporary artists . Well worth a visit. February 2018

  dereksayer

  March 16, 2023

  architecture, artworks, cities, modernism, museums

  Mexico City