Moving through the space of the picture and the page: photobook as artistic, architectural medium
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This publication brings together essays on six contemporary Belgian photobook makers and the way they deal with space, time, movement and surface within the book and within the photographic image. The artists discussed are Tine Guns, Dirk Braeckman, Els Martens, Max Pinckers, Vincent Delbrouck and Aglaia Konrad. In recent years, the book has firmly established itself as(...)
Moving through the space of the picture and the page: photobook as artistic, architectural medium
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This publication brings together essays on six contemporary Belgian photobook makers and the way they deal with space, time, movement and surface within the book and within the photographic image. The artists discussed are Tine Guns, Dirk Braeckman, Els Martens, Max Pinckers, Vincent Delbrouck and Aglaia Konrad. In recent years, the book has firmly established itself as an artistic medium for photography. Open a photobook today and with any luck you will enter a world full of visual twists and turns. A previously enclosed block suddenly becomes an open volume, and through that volume you can move and navigate. How you do so, through which spaces and at what pace, is largely determined by the book’s architecture.
Theory of Photography
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British historian Poole reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the first photographs taken of Earth from space, and how those amazing images forever changed our view of the planet, the universe and humanity. The tightly scheduled 1968 Apollo 8 mission was focused on the first lunar orbit, but "Earthrise"--the image of a cloudy blue Earth rising over a starkly(...)
Earthrise
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British historian Poole reveals the behind-the-scenes story of the first photographs taken of Earth from space, and how those amazing images forever changed our view of the planet, the universe and humanity. The tightly scheduled 1968 Apollo 8 mission was focused on the first lunar orbit, but "Earthrise"--the image of a cloudy blue Earth rising over a starkly monochromatic lunar surface--stunned everyone. Astronaut Frank Borman called it "the most beautiful, heart-catching sight of my life." NASA, at the forefront of the "astrofuturist" movement that saw humanity's future out among the stars, was unprepared for the paradoxical reaction "Earthrise" provoked. Rather than turning people's eyes on a future in space, it refocused them on Earth.
Architectural Theory
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Primordial Landscapes: Iceland Revealed explores the diverse and raw beauty of Iceland’s extraordinary landscapes through striking images by photographer and naturalist Feodor Pitcairn and the inspired words of geophysicist, author, and poet Ari Trausti Guðmundsson. This collection illuminates topographical phenomenon shaped and crafted by the most powerful natural forces(...)
Photography monographs
July 2015
Primordial landscapes: Iceland revealed
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Primordial Landscapes: Iceland Revealed explores the diverse and raw beauty of Iceland’s extraordinary landscapes through striking images by photographer and naturalist Feodor Pitcairn and the inspired words of geophysicist, author, and poet Ari Trausti Guðmundsson. This collection illuminates topographical phenomenon shaped and crafted by the most powerful natural forces on earth: rain and glacier melt form thunderous waterfalls and rivers that carve at the earth’s surface; arctic snow and ice peppering the land and sea with striking shapes and patterns, feeding the climate and water cycles; lava flows from active volcanoes that build vast, textured landforms where life can begin and take hold. These are the beautiful and extraordinary results of our planet’s most fundamental geological processes.
Photography monographs
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Who Do You Love presents a tightly curated group of unique, never-before-seen pieces—photographic distractions, in the words of the artist—from the 1990s, culled from hundreds made over the course of that decade. Using simple materials, they push at the edge between collage and straight photography, not sitting squarely in either space. A traditional photographic image(...)
John Gossage: who do you love
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Who Do You Love presents a tightly curated group of unique, never-before-seen pieces—photographic distractions, in the words of the artist—from the 1990s, culled from hundreds made over the course of that decade. Using simple materials, they push at the edge between collage and straight photography, not sitting squarely in either space. A traditional photographic image takes you “elsewhere” and “previously”; the photographic frame acts as a threshold to another place and time. By presenting each image unobscured but in tandem with collage-like elements and handmade marks, Gossage breaks the basic photographic illusion and directs one’s attention back to the surface of the work—to the present—with a rare sophistication. Edition of 500.
Photography monographs
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In her work, visual artist Popel Coumou plays with the main elements of photography: light, paper, and the perception of reality. By carefully lighting her collages, she manages to give the paper relief a third dimension; the flat surface comes to life. She creates empty spaces, compositions and graphic lines verging on the abstract. Figures rarely appear in her work, but(...)
Popel Coumou: Paper and light
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In her work, visual artist Popel Coumou plays with the main elements of photography: light, paper, and the perception of reality. By carefully lighting her collages, she manages to give the paper relief a third dimension; the flat surface comes to life. She creates empty spaces, compositions and graphic lines verging on the abstract. Figures rarely appear in her work, but there is always a sign of recent human presence, such as an empty chair or an open door. Published on the occasion of an exhibition at Fotomuseum Den Haag, ''Paper and light'' is an overview of Coumou’s work to date, including new work in an enlarged collage technique, specially produced for the museum.
Contemporary Art Monographs
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The Eberswalde Library has been compared to a Warhol painting. Designed in collaboration with artist Thomas Ruff, it carries the idea of a pictorial façade further than any other Herzog & de Meuron project. The building is a simple cube(...)
Architecture Monographs
January 1900, London
Herzog & de Meuron : Eberswalde Library
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The Eberswalde Library has been compared to a Warhol painting. Designed in collaboration with artist Thomas Ruff, it carries the idea of a pictorial façade further than any other Herzog & de Meuron project. The building is a simple cube sheathed in glazing and cast-concrete panels, arranged in horizontal bands. Each band shows a single image, repeated sixty-six times, like a static film strip. The images are drawn from Ruff’s own archive of newspaper photographs, and encompass the decorative, the symbolic, and the politically charged. Combining elements which have long been deemed incompatible – minimalism and ornament, purity and baroque fullness, concrete box and pictorial façade, space and surface – Herzog & de Meuron’s new library challenges the conventions of modernism.
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January 1900, London
Architecture Monographs
Martin Bogren : Metropolia
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Errance dans une cité imaginaire, « Metropolia » invite le lecteur à une déambulation onirique ponctuée de rencontres énigmatiques. L’espace urbain s’appréhende par fragments, se devine au fil des silhouettes qu’on y croise. Brumes, grains explosés, lumières parfois saturées, nuances de gris, couleurs monochromes jouant avec des bleus froids ou des orangés chauds, chez(...)
Martin Bogren : Metropolia
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Errance dans une cité imaginaire, « Metropolia » invite le lecteur à une déambulation onirique ponctuée de rencontres énigmatiques. L’espace urbain s’appréhende par fragments, se devine au fil des silhouettes qu’on y croise. Brumes, grains explosés, lumières parfois saturées, nuances de gris, couleurs monochromes jouant avec des bleus froids ou des orangés chauds, chez Bogren l’expérience visuelle se fait sensible. Il fait intervenir pour la première fois des photographies en couleur qui viennent ponctuer le noir et blanc. Saisir l’intimité, dire le fragile, donner à voir l’impermanence des choses : l’univers visuel de Martin Bogren révèle l’illusion du monde. Ses images captent sur leur surface un réel qui se dissout mais que l’art du photographe a su saisir in extremis, à la dérobée.
Photography monographs
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Driving the Human is a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach. This publication documents all milestones of the three-year project, contextualizing and expanding its discourse through expert voices and emerging creative visions. At its(...)
Driving the Human: Seven Prototypes For Eco-Social Renewal
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Driving the Human is a catalyst for experimentation, shaping sustainable and collective futures that combine science, technology, and the arts in a transdisciplinary and collaborative approach. This publication documents all milestones of the three-year project, contextualizing and expanding its discourse through expert voices and emerging creative visions. At its heart are seven prototypes for eco-social renewal, each proposing new ways to engage with one another and with what surrounds us, at the surface of the planet and beyond. They explore ways in which AI could mitigate climate change; immerse us in new forms of community through ancestral agricultural knowledge; employ fiction as a tool for new modes of multispecies conviviality; or create embodied connections to understand human impact in endangered territories.
Social
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Lurking under the surface of our modern world lies an unseen architecture—or anarchitecture. It is a possible architecture, an analogous architecture, an architecture of anarchy, which haunts in the form of monsters that are humans and machines and cities all at once; or takes the form of explosions, veils, queer, playful spaces, or visions from artwork and video games.(...)
The monster Leviathan: Anarchitecture
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Lurking under the surface of our modern world lies an unseen architecture—or anarchitecture. It is a possible architecture, an analogous architecture, an architecture of anarchy, which haunts in the form of monsters that are humans and machines and cities all at once; or takes the form of explosions, veils, queer, playful spaces, or visions from artwork and video games. In The Monster Leviathan, Aaron Betsky traces anarchitecture through texts, design, and art of the twentieth and early twenty-first century, and suggests that these ephemeral evocations are concrete proposals in and of themselves. Neither working models nor suggestions for new forms, they are scenes just believable enough to convince us they exist, or just fantastical enough to open our eyes.
Architectural Theory
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Comment organiser, gérer de la façon la plus égalitaire qu'il soit un territoire que l'on ne connaît encore pas ? Lorsque Thomas Jefferson imagine, en 1785, cette vaste grille orthogonale régulière qui, pendant tout le XIXe siècle, va progressivement s'étendre sur le continent nord-américain, l'Union des Etats-Unis n'est alors constituée que des treize premières colonies(...)
Thomas Jefferson et le projet du Nouveau Monde
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Comment organiser, gérer de la façon la plus égalitaire qu'il soit un territoire que l'on ne connaît encore pas ? Lorsque Thomas Jefferson imagine, en 1785, cette vaste grille orthogonale régulière qui, pendant tout le XIXe siècle, va progressivement s'étendre sur le continent nord-américain, l'Union des Etats-Unis n'est alors constituée que des treize premières colonies bordant la côte atlantique. La "grille" sera cet outil par lequel l'Amérique du Nord prendra corps et existence, dévoilant ce territoire immense du Nouveau Monde à la connaissance et conscience du monde contemporain. Sa construction nécessitera les compétences des scientifiques les plus accomplis, la structure "simple" du quadrillage se révélant être des plus complexes appliquée à grande échelle sur la surface courbe de la Terre.
Urban Theory