Category: cities
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window shopping #2 (Italy)
The mainstream of photographic activity has shown that a Surrealist manipulation or theatricalization of the real is unnecessary, if not actually redundant. Surrealism lies at the heart of the photographic enterprise: in the very creation of a duplicate world, of a reality in the second degree, narrower but more dramatic than the one perceived by…
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if walls could talk #1
Some walls are alive, blood flows in them, red warm blood pulsates under the thin layer of plaster in the stones … Sometimes when I walk around some wall, I remember the wall that lives in my fantasy, and I am fearful … Mikuláš Medek, diary entry, 13 April 1951 I was in Athens in…
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diverted traffic
I photograph to record objective and subjective situations that I consider to be fundamental. [The] inner model is not an autonomous product of our subconscious, but it is the projection of the movement of objective reality within us … which is not a rigid and dead set of facts surrounding our unsteady subjects, but reality…
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Kunsthalle (Berlin walls)
A kunsthalle is a facility that mounts temporary art exhibitions, similar to an art gallery. It is distinct from an art museum by not having a permanent collection. Wikipedia The first gallery shows fragments of the Berlin Wall for sale in shop windows (#1 + 2) or left standing as a tourist attraction. The rest of…
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Theodor Adorno’s desk
being a record of the hunt for Theodor Adorno’s desk in Frankfurt am Main on 12 March 2016
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almost all right
“Is not Main Street almost all right?” asked Robert Venturi in his 1966 book Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture. With his wife and partner Denise Scott Brown (who was scandalously overlooked when Robert was awarded the Pritzker Prize, architecture’s most prestigious honor, on the basis of their joint work), he went on to write Learning…
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curves #1
Curves are everywhere, softening the horizontals and verticals, but these photographs were all taken in Calgary, Alberta between 2016 and 2020. #1 rear view of Kane’s Harley Diner, Inglewood #2 our Renfrew backyard on 27 December 2016 #3 our much missed Luci #4 overlooking Bottomlands Park and Deerfoot Trail from Renfrew #1 from the footbridge…
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