Stephan Zirwes — Aerial Photographs
Stephan Zirwes's aerial photography — helicopter-shot industrial landscapes flattened into abstract geometric compositions.
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EMERY MOUNTAINS
April 2024, FRIEZE No. 9 Cork Street Gallery, London
EXHIBITION: The Mountains Between Us, FRIEZE No 9 Cork St
Weaving together photography, video and sculptural objects, lena_c_emery highlights the accelerated loss of mountain glaciers and the desperate conservation efforts currently employed to impede their decline. Under the continued influence of greenhouse-gas forced global warming, ice that took centuries to develop is vanishing in just a number of years. A fate experts predict for at least two-thirds of all glaciers by the end of this century. EMERY: In ‘The Mountains Between Us’, I capture the current environmental efforts undertaken to reduce the rate at which glaciers melt. Glaciers have held space for centuries, silently bearing witness to history. They’ve seen the world change in ways we can barely comprehend. Because my grandfather spent his life in these mountains, watching this particular glacier retreat and form lakes where there was previously only ice and at a pace that’s steadily increasing, feels deeply personal. The idea of covering these mammoths in fabric to stall the inevitable, feels both tragic and emblematic of our relationship with nature: The magnitude of loss countered by gestures that, though earnest, feel powerless. Visually these wrapped peaks evoke images of muddied tents, makeshift shelters that we’ve come to erect for those displaced by upheaval. This fragility, their fragility, our fragility, is a direct reflection of the imbalance we have sown, where those least responsible for ecological destruction are forced to bear its heaviest burdens. The title became a way to frame those divides. Mountains have always symbolised barriers, but perhaps they could also be reimagined as thread, shared histories and a collective belonging. The elemental particles composing our very being once danced amidst these ancient landscapes and if they disappear, part of us does too.
Voice Figures by Margaret Watts Hughes
Made more than 100 years ago by a Welsh singer named Margaret Watts Hughes — not by her hand but rather using her voice and an Eidophone, a “recording” device of her own invention. She would sing into the Eidophone’s funnel and so make its diaphragm vibrate. She’d then bring this vibrating diaphragm in contact with a glass plate covered in pigment to create these wondrous images, akin to visual sound recordings, or what she called Voice Figures (and the more complex Impression Figures).
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Form #7, Josef Schulz, 2003
Josef Schulz is a photographer known for capturing images of modern warehouses and factories, which are typically considered mundane industrial structures with little architectural significance. These buildings, produced worldwide, follow standardized plans and materials, lacking distinct external features to reveal their specific purposes.
Schulz's approach involves studying the essence of his craft through these photographs. He employs digital image processing to remove any elements hinting at the buildings' age, location, or surroundings, transforming them into virtual blueprints. By emphasizing colors, shapes, and symmetries, he turns the buildings into block-like structures, resembling toy architecture and presenting them as idealized versions of themselves.
In this process, Schulz blurs the line between photographic and painted reality to optimize the images. Simultaneously, he reduces the physical buildings to their design concepts and the photographic reality to its virtual representation. His intent is to diverge from the typical pursuit of making digital images appear as real as possible. This approach might leave the viewer perplexed, as they struggle to distinguish between authentic elements captured by the camera and those created through digital tools.
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Sonoya Mizuno as Dr. Azumi Fujita — Netflix MANIAC (2018)
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G-Star RAW HQ / OMA
The horizontal building spans 27,500 square meters and stretches 140 meters in length. It comprises a central creative hub that houses G-Star RAW's essential departments. This creative center is encircled by offices, parking spaces, and supporting amenities. The differentiation between the functional support areas and the dynamic creative core is emphasized by the use of distinct materials. The outer ring is constructed from black concrete, giving it a solid and unified appearance, while the transparent glass facade reveals the vibrant creative core within. The lower section of the ring serves as a base for parking and drop-off purposes, as well as a platform for installations and events.
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Robert Häusser J.R. 5-9-70
Gelatin silver print, printed 1999. 43.5 x 58.8 cm. Signed and dated in ballpoint pen lower right. Signed, dated, titled in ballpoint pen as well as photographer's thumb print on the verso. - Framed under glass.
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Martian Sunset
On May 19, 2005, NASA's Mars Exploration Rover Spirit captured this stunning view as the Sun sank below the rim of Gusev crater on Mars. This Panoramic Camera mosaic was taken around 6:07 in the evening of the rover's 489th Martian day, or sol.
Sunset and twilight images are occasionally acquired by the science team to determine how high into the atmosphere the Martian dust extends, and to look for dust or ice clouds. Other images have shown that the twilight glow remains visible, but increasingly fainter, for up to two hours before sunrise or after sunset. The long Martian twilight (compared to Earth's) is caused by sunlight scattered around to the night side of the planet by abundant high altitude dust. Similar long twilights or extra-colorful sunrises and sunsets sometimes occur on Earth when tiny dust grains that are erupted from powerful volcanoes scatter light high in the atmosphere.
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Japanese Warrior Figure — Edo/Meiji Period Ink Painting
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Sacai Paris — Before the Show, Street Snap by Masataka Matsumura
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Irving Penn × Issey Miyake — Two Miyake Warriors
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"Wendover II (For John)" by Barry Underwood
Nickel Tailings 34, Edward Burtynsky, 1996
From “Manufactured Landscapes: The Photographs of Edward Burtynsky”
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Vatnajökull — Glacier near Skaftafell, Iceland
Vennesla Library and Culture House by Helen & Hard
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A Story of Yonosuke (2013) — Shuichi Okita
Grey Peacock-Pheasant Plumage — Iridescent Ocelli Detail
Akari Hayami — Japanese Fashion Magazine Editorial
Bagh Nakh — Tiger Claw Weapon, India
Xavier Veilhan Faceted Figure Sculpture
Cidade das Artes — Christian de Portzamparc, Rio de Janeiro
Ralph McQuarrie — Battlestar Galactica (1978) Concept Art
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TRON Designs Corian — DuPont x Disney Milan Design Week 2011
FLCL (Fooly Cooly) — Naota Nandaba
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Casa Paracas — RRMR Arquitectos, Paracas Bay (2013)
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Bas Princen — Colonnade Infrastructure Photograph
Undercover Diaplex Autumn/Winter 2007 Collection
Design Band YOAP White House, Seoul
Cave Diving — Diver in Cenote Light Rays
Avi Forman — YSOA Advanced Mill Workshop CNC Surface
Nike Heritage Shoulder Bag Editorial
Lexus GS at Sydney Chinatown Gate, Dixon Street
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Comme des Garcons Tokyo Atelier — ARTE Documentary Still
House Playa El Golf H4 by RRMR Arquitectos
UNESCO Headquarters Entrance Canopy — Breuer, Nervi & Zehrfuss, Paris 1958
Raf Simons Menswear Lookbook — Photography by David Armstrong
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Antrax Serie T — Matteo Thun & Antonio Rodriguez
The North Face Purple Label Down Cardigan
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