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David Cowlard, Heygate Heaven, Heygate Estate. London 2011

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:19:04 +1200

David Cowlard, Heygate Heaven, Heygate Estate. London 2011

Ed Rusha, Contact sheet for Pacific Coast Highway, 1974 (via In...

Fri, 17 May 2013 12:16:00 +1200

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...

Sun, 12 May 2013 12:12:00 +1200

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:...

Fri, 10 May 2013 09:36:56 +1200

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...

Wed, 08 May 2013 22:55:28 +1200

(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...

Wed, 08 May 2013 16:02:54 +1200

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...

Thu, 25 Apr 2013 07:42:30 +1200

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...

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 23:15:11 +1200

europavintage:

Torre Velasca, Milan, Italy

(from Architectures de Cartes Postales)

"What is truly disturbing about the Tsarnaev brothers’ destructive behaviour is its depoliticised..."

Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:01:00 +1200

“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...

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 23:48:31 +1200

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...

Mon, 22 Apr 2013 22:43:14 +1200

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)

uncubemagazine.com

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:16:50 +1200

uncubemagazine.com:

“A new digital magazine for architecture and beyond”

Common Pavilions – photographed by Gabriele Basilico shortly...

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 01:09:00 +1200

Common Pavilions – photographed by Gabriele Basilico shortly before his death.

(via BRITISH PAVILION - Common Pavilions)

Overview

My article for Architecture NZ on social media has been posted...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 09:47:39 +1200

My article for Architecture NZ on social media has been posted to Architecture Now.

(via Social Architecture | Architecture Now)

whitecliffephoto: “Why Mister, Why? had just one print run of...

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 07:35:05 +1200

whitecliffephoto:

“Why Mister, Why? had just one print run of 5000 copies, quickly becoming a seminal body of work on the Iraq war and a collector’s item. Now, 10 years after the invasion of Iraq, Geert van Kesteren is bringing the book to the ipad.”

(via Geert van Kesteren’s Why Mister, Why? released for the iPad - British Journal of Photography)

Garry Winogrand, Kennedy Airport, 1968. (via Garry Winogrand: A...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 10:11:00 +1300

Garry Winogrand, Kennedy Airport, 1968.

(via Garry Winogrand: A look back at one of America’s most prolific photographers (PHOTOS).)

From the major new show at SFMOMA which includes 100 new prints from the huge number of undeveloped films that were left after Winogrand’s death.

mpdrolet: Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, 1872 William...

Thu, 04 Apr 2013 09:03:41 +1300

mpdrolet:

Grand Canyon of the Colorado River, 1872

William Bell

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s War Primer 2, a...

Sun, 31 Mar 2013 23:26:00 +1300

Adam Broomberg and Oliver Chanarin’s War Primer 2, a reinterpretation of Bertold Brecht’s 1955 publication War Primer available as a digital download from MAPP Editions.

Google Street View images of Namie-machi, a city north of...

Fri, 29 Mar 2013 09:50:00 +1300

Google Street View images of Namie-machi, a city north of Fukushima.

(via Google Maps a Japanese Nuclear Ghost Town - In Focus - The Atlantic)

More info at the Google Maps blog

vaguelyspecific: Jan Tschichold’s mock-up for the standardized...

Thu, 28 Mar 2013 21:25:18 +1300

vaguelyspecific:

Jan Tschichold’s mock-up for the standardized Penguin Books covers.