some preliminary snapshots from a photographic study about the rapidly changing architecture of modern cities and the impact on social life and identity. Space, Represention, Demolition, City, Identity, Culture, Art and Heritage are concepts of investigation ... I am doing some readings and among them I found inspiration in the writings and of course the paintings of Giorgio de Chirico ...
the project is in a very generic and preliminary state, I am not sure what I am looking for, the subject is Urbanity and Identity but it is still just a vague motive ...
Also recently I have relesed a new website dedicated to architectural photography ( currently under development ): PhotoVisionProject - Architectural Photography
‘One clear autumn afternoon I was sitting on a bench in the middle of the Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. It was of course not the first time I had seen this square ...The whole world, down to the marble of the buildings and fountains, seemed to me to be convalescen t...Then I had the strange impression I was looking at these things for the first time, and the composition of my picture came to my mind's eye. Now each time I look at that painting I see that moment. Nevertheless the moment is an enigma to me, for it is inexplicable'. - (Giorgio de Chirico: Meditations of a Painter, 1912, trans. by Loiuse Bourgeois & Robert Goldwater).
The Anxious Journey I feel, could easily be called "The anxious journey into the unknown" . What the picture represents to me is a manifestation of the possibilities laying ahead. You have the corridors that lead to unknown outcomes, the sliver of light ( or hope ) that your journey takes you somewhere pleasant.
The Origins of Architecture, After de Chirico - Thomas Mical
Giorgio de Chirico’s haunting representations of classical architecture and abandoned piazzas are often seen as anticipating the emergence of modern urbanism. This essay proposes that the metaphysical paintings, informed by Nietzschean philosophy, are posited upon a provisional origin of architecture, not as shelter, but as bodily sacrifice, turning flesh into stone, the moment into eternity. In de Chirico’s metaphysical spaces, architectural history appears a dialogue between these forces, where origin and end circulate around the fatal origin of architecture as memory. This thesis is developed and supported by the theory and practice of fragmentary writing utilizing the works of Nietzsche’s post–structuralist interpreters.
The Images are organized in four main categories:
Heimfeld - Industrieruine an der Seehafenstraße. Auf dem ehemaligen Gelände der ContiTech.
the project is in a very generic and preliminary state, I am not sure what I am looking for, the subject is Urbanity and Identity but it is still just a vague motive ...
Also recently I have relesed a new website dedicated to architectural photography ( currently under development ): PhotoVisionProject - Architectural Photography
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| Giorgio de Chirico "Metaphysical Urbanism". NIKON FM2 camera, Nikkor f3.5 28mm PC lens. |
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| Modern City, preliminary sketches. Linhof Master Technika. |
‘One clear autumn afternoon I was sitting on a bench in the middle of the Piazza Santa Croce in Florence. It was of course not the first time I had seen this square ...The whole world, down to the marble of the buildings and fountains, seemed to me to be convalescen t...Then I had the strange impression I was looking at these things for the first time, and the composition of my picture came to my mind's eye. Now each time I look at that painting I see that moment. Nevertheless the moment is an enigma to me, for it is inexplicable'. - (Giorgio de Chirico: Meditations of a Painter, 1912, trans. by Loiuse Bourgeois & Robert Goldwater).
The Anxious Journey I feel, could easily be called "The anxious journey into the unknown" . What the picture represents to me is a manifestation of the possibilities laying ahead. You have the corridors that lead to unknown outcomes, the sliver of light ( or hope ) that your journey takes you somewhere pleasant.
The Origins of Architecture, After de Chirico - Thomas Mical
Giorgio de Chirico’s haunting representations of classical architecture and abandoned piazzas are often seen as anticipating the emergence of modern urbanism. This essay proposes that the metaphysical paintings, informed by Nietzschean philosophy, are posited upon a provisional origin of architecture, not as shelter, but as bodily sacrifice, turning flesh into stone, the moment into eternity. In de Chirico’s metaphysical spaces, architectural history appears a dialogue between these forces, where origin and end circulate around the fatal origin of architecture as memory. This thesis is developed and supported by the theory and practice of fragmentary writing utilizing the works of Nietzsche’s post–structuralist interpreters.
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| 19th c. Abandoned Architectural Structure. Saxony, Germany. Hasselblad 501CM, Kodak Tri-X. |
The Images are organized in four main categories:
- Ruins and the City - Changing Structures / vanishing memories
- Modern City - New Architecture
- Lost Cities - Ancient and Medieval Architectural Ruins
- LOST ARCHITECTURES - Urban/Industrial Ruins
Modern City - Changing Structures
Modern City - Architecture
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| Modern City Hamburg. Zero Image Pinhole. |
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| Modern City Hamburg. Zeiss Box Tengor 6x9. |
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| demolised brutalist building. Modern City Hamburg. Mb612 Pinhole. |
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| Modern City Hamburg. ADOX Golf 6x6. |
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| Modern City Hamburg. Voigtlaender Bergheil 6x9. |
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| Modern City Hamburg. Voigtlaender Bessamatic 35mm. |
Ancient and Medieval Architectural Ruins
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| Roman Agora, Athens. Pinhole ( Camera Lucida ). |
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| Monemvasia Ruins, Zeiss Ikoflex Favorit. |
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| Monemvasia, Greece. Medieval Ruins. Pinhole ( Camera Lucida ). |
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| Monemvasia, Greece. Medieval Ruins. Zeiss Ikoflex Favorit. |
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| Monemvasia, Greece. Medieval Ruins. Pinhole ( Camera Lucida ). |
LOST ARCHITECTURE - Industrial Ruins
EISENWERKE TANGERHUETTE
Die Alte Gießereihalle in der Industriestraße in Tangerhütte. Sie gehört zum ehemaligen Eisenwerk der Stadt und wurde 1896 in der typischen Backsteinarchitektur der damaligen Zeit errichtet.
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| abandoned architectural structures - Hasselblad 501CM |
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| abandoned architectural structures - Hasselblad 501CM |
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| abandoned architecture - Nikon FM2, Nikkor 28mm PC |
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| abandoned architecture - Nikon FM2, Nikkor 28mm PC |
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| abandoned architecture - Nikon FM2, Nikkor 28mm PC |
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| abandoned architecture - Hasselblad 501CM, Kodak Tri-X. |
PHOENIX AUTOMOTIVE GmbH
Heimfeld - Industrieruine an der Seehafenstraße. Auf dem ehemaligen Gelände der ContiTech.
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| abandoned architecture - Nikon FM2, Nikkor 28mm PC |
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| abandoned architecture - Nikon FM2, Nikkor 28mm PC |
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| abandoned architecture - Nikon FM2, Nikkor 28mm PC |
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| abandoned architecture - Nikon FM2, Nikkor 28mm PC |
EX-NAZI/SOVIET-KASSERNEN
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| Plaubel Makina 67 |
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| Plaubel Makina 67 |
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