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Teshima Art Museum

Last month, Iwan visited Japan to photograph the Teshima Art Museum by Ruye Nishizawa and Rei Naito. An absolutely wonderful, strange and fascinating building, popping up on one of the 3000 islands of Japan.

Just published by Domus, they tell a little more about it: "...The Teshima Art Museum is almost completely empty, devoid of contents. Its interior is fluid, a concrete membrane carpeting the ground and wrapping up from shadowy edges to span as a low unobstructed dome overhead. Neither columns nor beams interrupt the organic singularity of the total volume. Similarly there is none of the clutter normally associated with museums…
…Nishizawa's building evokes a faith in the ability of architecture to make the world seem somewhat strange yet simultaneously a little bit better." (Domus 942, December 2010, text by Raymund Ryan) [ Continue reading ]

Mokum


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Thomas Tukker crossed Amsterdam with a huge old polaroid camera, to shoot a series of pictures for our 6th issue of Journal de Nîmes. The images are nailed on the wall of Tenue de Nîmes in Amsterdam and definitely worth a check… [ Continue reading ]

Polaroid Vitae


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An older project by The Explorers Club than the Levi’s movie they did 2 months ago, but definitely as good as that one! Polaroid Vitae Vol. II is a series of 28 black and white polaroids ‘serving as index of an individual,… [ Continue reading ]

Make History


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Make History, the photo project initiated by Lee, is slowly growing into a monumental collection of images, each one telling a story from its own unique and powerful point of view. The jury of the second edition selected 100 finalists out of the 10.000… [ Continue reading ]

Astronaut’s son


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You can be an Astronaut’s son, but you will always need to clean your fathers car. The only profit is that the car will probably a Maserati… Astronaut Walter Schirra’s son cleans his father’s Maserati as dad looks on. From the Life Archives. [ Continue reading ]

Sophie

Dutch artist Anouk Griffioen and photographer Annemarieke van Drimmelen worked together on a project called Sophie. Transparent and fragile images, collages in black and white, an exploration between the parallels of photography and illustration resulted in Sophie, a beautiful series of portraits. The images will be exhibited in Magazijn 153 (Oudezijds Voorburgwal 153, Amsterdam, the Netherlands) the 27th and 28th of November. Together with the exhibition a special cassette with signed prints will be available in a limited edition of 50. More images after the click > [ Continue reading ]

Tab Ideas


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A little update on our Samsung Galaxy Tab project. In the night from Thursday to Friday last week I took the car, together with Haim, to head east and find some good spots for our Ideas in Motion project. Scrolling on Google Maps the day before,… [ Continue reading ]

VIVIAN MAIER –
HER DISCOVERED WORK

This nice blog was created in dedication to the Vivian Maier (1 February 1926 - 21 April 2009).  Vivian, a french-born street photographer from the 1950s - 1990s, who came to the US in childhood, worked for several years as a nanny in Chicago. Her photographs remained unknown until after her death and was discovered by John Maloof, a Chicago estate agent, at an auction in 2007. The work includes 100 000 mostly medium format negatives and lots of undeveloped rolls of film. [ Continue reading ]

Martien Mulder


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Dutch born and New York based photographer Martien Mulder will open her new solo exhibition at Kahmann Gallery in Amsterdam today. The exhibition is called “From Blue To Blue” and includes highlights of 10 years of personal work. ‘Martien Mulder’s photographs reflect her travels,… [ Continue reading ]

French


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I love people sending me stuff they love. Fred is one of them. Sometimes theres a mail in my inbox with just some pictures, no words, just pictures… They’re from Fred Bschaden, German agent for Red Wing Shoes (a.o.). This time with some proper… [ Continue reading ]

Tokyo Apartments


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My brother shot this new and noteworthy project by Sou Fujimoto Architects. Say hello to the an almost Escher look a like collective housing project Tokyo Apartments where the seemingly random placement of the units makes you feel “you have your own house in… [ Continue reading ]

The Evolution
of THE WORLD CUP BALL


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‘The ball is round´, as Sepp Herberger, the former German national coach, once accurately observed. It’s time to feel a whiff of soccer history again – with a series of Fifa World Cup balls photos through time, from 1930 to present, shot by Jens… [ Continue reading ]

Places


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My flickr find of last week: Nuclearjazz. Really beautiful pictures of desolated landscapes, abandoned houses and strange settings. Love it!… [ Continue reading ]

It’s better in the wind


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  It’s better in the wind is a beautiful photographic essay by Scott G Toepfer. So nice, so inspiring! I really feel the need to hop on my bike and start a journey myself! “Whatever it is, it’s better in the wind.” Wait for the book… [ Continue reading ]

Andrew Field


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Nice new series of pictures by The Selby: Andrew Field – chef at Rockaway Taco – Rockaway Beach Queens. [ Continue reading ]

Envelopes


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A fantastic collection of envelopes by photographer Andrew Bush. This is such a great inspiration and I really feel like start collecting or making my own. Truly amazing! (via an ambitious project collapsing & the best time… [ Continue reading ]

Byredo


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Just a quick note with a beautiful photograph of my favorite perfume by Emil Larsson. Byredo it is!… [ Continue reading ]

Keith McArthur


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Just found these on Flickr. A really nice series of pictures by Michigan based photographer Keith McArthur. Enjoy >… [ Continue reading ]

Shopkeepers


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Dutch photographer Niels Helmink photographed shop keepers in their specialty stores. Truly inspiring. More beautiful stores after the click. And be sure you’ll buy his book here. (via TdN)… [ Continue reading ]

Godspeed 45/06 issue 3


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Cicero deGuzman, the guy behind Godspeed 45/06 just wrote me with some great new work and the release of the 3rd Godspeed Document. The quarterly collection of photographs documenting custom motorcycle builders, their work, and their workspaces features The Harpoon, Trevelen, and Yaniv from Powerplant Choppers… [ Continue reading ]

Mark Niedermann


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Swiss photographer Mark Niedermann shared some new work with us. We very much like this black and white paper for Inch Furniture. More excellent new work on his website for Swiss Magazine, Swiss Pavilion Expo 2010 and the book La Cucina d’Abruzzo and on his… [ Continue reading ]

Thomas Høedholt

Check out this delicious raw photography of Thomas Høedholt from Copenhagen. I think he has a great eye for sculptural compositions and interesting locations. The above image is from a series called Deserted shipyard. Be sure to take a look at the other photographic… [ Continue reading ]

Freedom


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The 5th of May is an important day for The Netherlands. It symbolizes the capitulation of the Nazi’s in 1945. This image shows one of the heroes driving into Amsterdam as published by the ‘Prinses Irene Brigade’. We would like to take this opportunity to… [ Continue reading ]