Architectural ingenuity was, for a long time, literally wedded to the Church, its great sponsor. This patronage continued into the modern period, and the works that came from that seemingly anachronistic marriage—the antagonism between concrete futures and traditional stone and brick, between boisterous forms and contemplative ceremony—are nothing short of dazzling, especially when photographed by
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You Won’t Find Any Steeples Here: Capturing The Drama Of Postwar Concrete Churches
Architectural ingenuity was, for a long time, literally wedded to the Church, its great sponsor. This patronage continued into the modern period, and the works that came from that seemingly anachronistic marriage—the antagonism between concrete futures and traditional stone and brick, between boisterous forms and contemplative ceremony—are nothing short of dazzling, especially when photographed by
Urban Planning Gone Terribly Wrong
In quite possibly the best illustration of “accidents waiting to happen” ever, German artist Robert Rickhoff has created a new photo series that questions public space in a humorous—and sometimes disturbing—way. See more!
Titled “Out of Place,” Rickhoff’s series underscores the importance of architecture and urban planning by presenting impractical and dangerous situations, such as a playground slide facing a road or a speed bump in a railroad track. Don’t worry: these are not real-life scenes (although that certainly would make the images more compelling). Rickhoff digitally manipulates photos from various urban and suburban locales.
At first glance, many of the photos appear to be rather banal. It’s only upon closer inspection that viewers realize something is amiss. Whether they suggest skateboarding in the street or playing volleyball in the center of the Autobahn, Rickhoff’s images depict how idiotic urban design could actually be. We only hope these scenarios don’t actually exist somewhere on this crazy planet!
Images courtesy of Robert Rickhoff
[via designboom]
Scenes From A Disaster: Modern San Francisco Remembers The 1906 Earthquake
All images courtesy of Shawn Clover
In 1906 a massive earthquake and subsequent fires destroyed the city of San Francisco, killing thousands and creating devastation throughout the area. Over 100 years later, San Francisco-based photographer Shawn Clover is working on a series of composite images that inter-mix photos of the disaster’s aftermath with scenes from modern day San Francisco. Read more.
Clover has spent the past couple of years creating the composite series, with the first release debuting in 2010 and the second installation out just a few weeks ago. To create the intricate images, Clover compiled a catalogue of historical photographs that had the potential to blend with the modern scenes of the city. Once a view was chosen, Clover took the time to line up his shot, determined by the original photographer’s stance, and taking everything into account including focal length, lens shifts and lighting conditions.
[via blog.sfgate]
You’ve Never Viewed An Apartment Quite Like This
Images © Michael H. Rohde
Back in June we featured the vertigo-inducing photo series, “Room Portraits,” by artist Menno Aden. In the collection, Aden captured living and public spaces from an omniscient aerial perspective. Exploring the voyeuristic nature of society, the photographs were stripped of subjectivity, creating a dizzying vignette of unrecognizable spaces.
Well, if Aden presented views only accessible by satellite, then the Michael H. Rohde photo series “From Below” envisions the world from 6 feet under. Read More.
The series created by the German photographer presents a disorienting landscape of gravity-defying household objects that are seemingly suspended effortlessly in space. Each photograph appears to have been shot through a glass bottom floor, creating a detached perspective filled with floating objects that “are supported only by the attentive gaze of the viewer.”
While Aden’s series aimed to transform each space through abstraction, Rohde’s photographs test the limits even further by creating an unsettling interpretation of traditionally recognizable environments.
[via ignant]
Photo Mash-Up Reinterprets The Brazilian Favela
Images courtesy of Dionisio González
The term favela is most often associated with the plight of the impoverished urban areas of Brazil. With a census-estimated 11.4 million Brazilians still living in such shanty towns, the over-populated slums reside along the edges of main cities. Spanish artist Dionisio González has reimagined traditional Brazilian favelas in a surrealist photo series. Read more.
In what appears to be a collection of immaculate images of dense urban dwellings, González’s favelas series is actually a photo mash-up of contemporary urban spaces. Creating a collage of images, shantytowns come to life through a heavy incorporation of glass, angles, and modern facades. The series features both large and small panoramic images of the different favelas, each ranging from meager to surreal in terms of construction and structure.
[via flavorwire]
Room with a Heavenly View
Room Portraits by Menno Aden
In his latest work of photographs, artist Menno Aden captures living and public interiors with the omniscient power privy only to the Creator, or possibly Google Satellites. This original series entitled “Room Portraits” depicts actual living environments and public spaces in a two dimensional maze of symmetrical compositions. By installing cameras on the ceilings of various rooms, Aden was able to document these spaces from a vantage point seen by few.
To achieve a uniform space as the photographs depict in such a meticulous fashion, Aden took multiple images of each room and then digitally merged each space into one composite. Taken at an angle that allows the viewer to inspect every object and movement, these pictures of corner stores, offices and other familiar spaces quickly become dizzying and verge on the unrecognizable.
Flattened and stripped of any subjectivity, and with the claustrophobic cropping and ranging color palettes, the photographs alludes to society’s ongoing obsession with surveillance and the inherent voyeuristic nature of mankind.
[via It's Nice That]