Tag: Amsterdam

• unexpected encounters #13: sun throat cut

  The body will continue to demonstrate mortality as the fate of all humans. It is for this reason that any reference to human animality gravely affects those who dream of its antithesis.   They take offence not only at any mention of animality in life, but in science, literature, and the arts as well, as this…

  dereksayer

  April 1, 2024

  adverts, artworks, cities, photographers, reflections, sex, shop windows, shopping malls

  Amsterdam, Arles, Paris, Prague

• greenery

  kauri forest, Northland, New Zealand November 2000 #1 Siena March 2001 #2 Tokyo fish market September 2010 #3 Philadelphia April 2008 #4 Houston July 2011 #5 Whangerei, December 2000 #2 Prague June 2004 Mariánské Lázně June 2004 Amsterdam July 2004 Singapore January 2006 #1-2 Garstang, Lancashire #3 Sissinghurst, Kent June-July 2013

  dereksayer

  April 26, 2023

  cafés, cemeteries, cities, colors, food, landscape, Luci, markets, people, rural, sculptures

  Amsterdam, Garstang, Houston, Lancashire, London, Mariánské Lázně, New Zealand, Philadelphia, Prague, Siena, Singapore, Texas, Tokyo

• 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