Category: monuments
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portals #5 (Arles)
1 entrance to Channel Tunnel, Kent 2 Eurostar 3-4 Arles All other photos shot in Arles, September 2014
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portals #1
These photos were all taken on a first-generation Sony digital camera with a resolution of 1 megapixel in New Zealand in October-December 2000. Auckland 1 unknown (rural NZ) 2-5 Hastings 1 Houhora 2 Kawakawa 3-4 Kaeo 5-6 Kohukohu 1 Mangonui 2-5 Napier 6 Paeroa 1 Paihia 2-6 Tarradale 1-2 Te Aroha 3-5 Wellington 1-2 Wellington…
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unexpected encounters #11: in the zone
War is beautiful because it inaugurates the dreamed-of metallization of the human body … War is beautiful because it combines gunfire, barrages, cease-fires, scents, and the fragrance of putrefaction into a symphony. War is beautiful because it creates new architectures, like those of armored tanks, geometric squadrons of aircraft, spirals of smoke from burning villages.…
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unexpected encounters #8: phantasmagorias
The world dominated by its phantasmagorias—this, to make use of Baudelaire’s term, is “modernity.” Walter Benjamin, The Arcades Project He who has once begun to open the fan of memory never comes to the end of its segments. No image satisfies him, for he has seen that it can be unfolded, and only in its folds…
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are, bure, boke #4
Tokyo, September 2011 #1–2 Mexico City, February 2018 #3 Singapore, February 2016 4–6 Johor Bahru, February 2016 Hanoi, February 2016 Frankfurt, March 2016 #1–4 Frankfurt #5–6 Berlin March 2016 Berlin, March 2016
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kafka metro tram
Quadrio Shopping Center, Národní třída, Prague The “moving head” of Franz Kafka (#1), installed outside the Quadria Center in 2014, is by the artist David Černý. The text in image #7 translates as “love somehow doesn’t always triumph over liars or over money” – a pointed allusion to Václav Havel’s slogan “Truth and love must…
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blue + yellow #1
For me, the combination of the primary colors blue and yellow always used to say IKEA. Nowadays it has acquired other connotations. Slava Ukraini! New Zealand, November-December 2000 #1-2 Napier #3-4 Tarradale #5 Rawene #1-4 Whangerei #1-2 Auckland #3 Devonport #4-6 Wellington Singapore December 2005 West Texas April 2011 (# 5 + 6) + April…
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