photourbanist

David Cowlard, Heygate Heaven, Heygate Estate. London 2011

Ed Rusha, Contact sheet for Pacific Coast Highway, 1974

(via In Focus: Ed Ruscha » Pacific Standard Time Presents)

O. Winston Link, photographer and field recordist documented the end of the steam era in the 1950s.

A great NPR piece featuring an interview with Tom Garver curator of the O. Winston Link museum (formerly Link’s assistant).

More sound recording samples are here.

Fred Herzog, Lucy / Georgia, 1968

(via FRED HERZOG: “COLOR” « ASX | AMERICAN SUBURB X | Photography & CultureASX | AMERICAN SUBURB X | Photography & Culture)

(via Saul Bass: Hitchcock’s master of film titles celebrated in Google doodle | Technology | guardian.co.uk)

Dillon Marsh, Invasive Species 04

via Cellphone Towers Disguised as Trees Are a Puzzling Attempt at Aesthetics | Raw File | Wired.com)

$fractalized: A Burger King surrounded by blast barriers in Baghdad in 2008. Photo by Donovan Wylie. Image used to illustrate “How cities reshape themselves when trust vanishes” by Thanassis Cambanis.“At root, cities depend on constant leaps of faith. Each act of violence—a mugging, a murder, a bombing—erodes that faith. Over time, especially if there are more attacks, a city will adapt in subtle but profound and insidious ways.”$

fractalized:

A Burger King surrounded by blast barriers in Baghdad in 2008. Photo by Donovan Wylie.

Image used to illustrate “How cities reshape themselves when trust vanishes” by Thanassis Cambanis.
“At root, cities depend on constant leaps of faith. Each act of violence—a mugging, a murder, a bombing—erodes that faith. Over time, especially if there are more attacks, a city will adapt in subtle but profound and insidious ways.”

europavintage:

Torre Velasca, Milan, Italy

(from Architectures de Cartes Postales)

“ What is truly disturbing about the Tsarnaev brothers’ destructive behaviour is its depoliticised nature. It seems that their actions were prompted less by ‘the lure of radicalism’ than by the unravelling of meaning in twenty-first-century Western society

— Boston: what turns nice guys into nihilists? | Frank Furedi | spiked

new-aesthetic:

Twitter / MassStatePolice: “Photos taken from State Police Air Wing on Watertown manhunt.Media, please credit MSP for pics.”

whitecliffephoto:

“Thomas Sauvin says he is not an artist. He is a editor, curator, collector and archivist. Since 2005, he has rescued over half a million photographic negatives that were on their way to being destroyed. Through the whole of his archive he has created an unedited portrait of a transforming post socialist China.”

(via INTERVIEW: Thomas Sauvin - “ASX Interviews Thomas Sauvin” (2013) « ASX | AMERICAN SUBURB X | Photography & CultureASX | AMERICAN SUBURB X | Photography & Culture)

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