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November 20, 2009 – 12:53 pm

ordos, under construction

Strangely affecting photographs of Ordos under construction, via delicious/sevensixfive; my previous thoughts on Ordos here.

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November 2, 2009 – 1:08 pm

re-inhabited circle-k’s

["Mini-Mart, Albuquerque, NM"; photographer Paho Mann documents the diverse array of stores that re-inhabit the empty shells abandoned by the national corporation Circle-K; the current lives of Circle-K's include "a dry cleaners, a couple of florist shops, a tattoo parlor, a tuxedo rental place, several mini-marts and dollar stores, and Bridgett’s Last Laugh Karaoke and [...]

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October 14, 2009 – 11:00 am

edward burtynsky, oil

[oil field maintained by the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan Republic, photographed by Edward Burtynsky (Manufactured Landscapes), via dpr-barcelona; visit Burtynsky's website for additional images from the book]
Edward Burtynsky’s latest book and exhibition explores the landscapes of, machinery that produces, and products dervied from oil:
“When I first started photographing industry it was out of a [...]

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October 8, 2009 – 9:28 am

zibo

[apartment blocks in Zibo, via google maps]
A photo essay on the Chinese city of Zibo, in four parts (Zibo I, Zibo II, Zibo III, Zibo IV — best viewed in IE/Safari/Chrome, as some script there tends to upset Firefox), from Moving Cities, who are doing some fascinating research on urbanism in China.  Zibo is one [...]

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October 7, 2009 – 9:22 am

ephemeral infrastructures

Between 1999 and 2004, Ruth Dusseault documented the transformation of Atlanta’s derelict Atlantic Steel Industries complex into Atlantic Station, a massive (138 acres, with a budget exceeding two billion dollars) residential and retail development.  The photos reveal a fascinating but ephemeral landscape marked by raw and unfinished structures that are eventually buried beneath more civilized [...]

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September 23, 2009 – 10:07 am

the sewers of cote st. paul

[The sewer as limestone cavern, or the near-total hybridization of infrastructure and natural process, via Under Montreal.]

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July 24, 2009 – 12:44 pm

there is no such thing as photographic truth

Critical Terrain asked photographers Alex Fradkin, Tim Griffith, Mark Luthringer, and David Maisel to contribute their thoughts on the Edgar Martins digital fabrication episode, which I accidentally stumbled into earlier this month.

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July 18, 2009 – 2:18 pm

sergey prokudin-gorsky

“Sergey Mikhaylovich Prokudin-Gorsky was a Russian photographer… Outfitted with a specially equipped railroad car darkroom provided by Tsar Nicholas II, and in possession of two permits that granted him access to restricted areas and cooperation from the empire’s bureaucracy, Prokudin-Gorsky documented the Russian Empire around 1909 through 1915.”
[via opus // more about the digital reclamation [...]

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June 12, 2009 – 7:26 pm

edward burtynsky

Eat your heart out Richard Serra.  http://www.edwardburtynsky.com > ships > shipbreaking.

After reading this post I was referred to here by a friend:
http://www.edwardburtynsky.com/
It turns out to be doubly relevant to recent posts: not only containing beautiful images of manufactured landscapes, but also absolutely stunning images of shipbreaking in Chittagong, Bangladesh.
via Nico Sy, who doesn’t have a blog but [...]

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June 10, 2009 – 12:03 pm

tommy manuel interviews harald finster

Tommy Manuel has a very interesting interview with photographer Harald Finster, who specializes in the industrial.  Points of discussion which obviously cross-pollinate landscape/architecture ensue:
“Let me give an example: Essen and the Ruhr area will be “Kulturhauptstadt Europa 2010″ (Capital of Culture 2010). The official pamphlet says “Die Identität dieser Metropole ist nicht mehr geprägt von [...]

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