Category: cities

• 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

• Je t’aime, moi non plus

  the graves of Charles Baudelaire, Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, Man Ray and his wife Juliette, Serge Gainsbourg (with the Camels, Metro tickets + lipstick kisses), and Samuel Beckett. Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris, summer 2002

  dereksayer

  March 21, 2023

  cemeteries, cities, monuments, surrealism

  Paris

• are, bure, boke #1

  The Japanese photographers associated with the Provoke group, whose best-known member was Daido Moriyama, espoused an aesthetic of “Are, Bure, Boke,” or “rough, blurred, out-of-focus.” There can be many reasons for blurry images – too low a shutter speed, too wide an aperture, camera shake, reflections, errors in focusing, a dirty lens – but the…

  dereksayer

  March 21, 2023

  cities, hotels, night, people, photographers, reflections, shop windows, shopping malls, street photography

  Japan, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia, Sabah, Singapore, Tokyo

• diagonals #1

  Barcelona, 2002 London (#1 + 3, 2001), Nîmes (#2, 2002) California April 2002 (#1 San Francisco, #2 + 3 Venice Beach) Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. Building designed by Tadao Ando, 2002. Image #1 was shot inside Richard Serra’s sculpture “Vortex” (2002). Photos July 2010 Mexico City, February 2019 Singapore, June 2022

  dereksayer

  March 20, 2023

  architecture, cities, geometries, modernism, murals, sculptures, shopping malls

  Barcelona, California, Fort Worth, London, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Provence, San Francisco, Singapore, Texas

• details, Melaka

  Photos taken in Melaka (Malacca), Malaysia, January 2006.

  dereksayer

  March 19, 2023

  architecture, cafés, cities

  Malacca, Malaysia

• murals in Mission

  I photographed these murals in San Francisco twenty years ago next month. How many are still there, I don’t know. Mission district, San Francisco, April 2003

  dereksayer

  March 18, 2023

  cities, murals

  California, San Francisco

• the rain in Spain

  Sevilla, Spain, 1-3 May, 2019

  dereksayer

  March 18, 2023

  cities, landscape, shop windows, skies, street photography

  Sevilla, Spain

• 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

• horizontals #1

  CaixaForum, Sevilla, May 2018. Sevilla, May 2018. Bus station, bar, and Plaza de España. Madrid, May 2018. Two of these photographs were taken at the CaixaForum on the Paseo del Prado, the rest in nearby back streets. Mexico City, February 2019. The highway to Teotihuacán. Mexico City, February 2020. 4th + 5th images shot at…

  dereksayer

  March 17, 2023

  adverts, architecture, cafés, cities, geometries, graffiti, landscape, murals, museums, people, street photography

  Madrid, Mexico City, Sevilla, Spain

• Pujol

  Pujol restaurant in Mexico City was ranked the #1 restaurant in North America (and #8 in the world) in 2021. We tried it on our visit in February 2019. Memorable. The dishes …

  dereksayer

  March 16, 2023

  cities, food, restaurants

  Mexico City