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  • Carson Davis Brown’s Store Disruptions

    Artist Carson Davis Brown creates site-specific, color-based installations that provoke the passers-by to become more aware of their environment.

    Brown’s project ‘Mass‘ took him to the stores acorss the U.S. The artist has put colorful installations in big box stores and other “places of mass”. These temporary sculptures are made of objects otherwise not linked with each other, grouped by their tones. Made without permission, the objects stand at the intersection of street and land art. Created and photographed, the artworks are then left to be experiences by the passers-by and eventually destroyed by the location’s staff. The photographs are also printed, framed and exhibited in the stores. “Carefully photographing these sculptures of ephemera before they are eroded by store’s employees is as important as erecting them,” says Brown.

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  • Andrea Ponti’s Chairs Are Rooted In Architecture

    Andrea Ponti‘s series of geometrical chairs is based on a line-drawn version of window seats, referencing Hong Kong’s architecture.

    The collection is called ‘Shadows in the Windows’ and will be shown at this year’s Milan Design Week. It features eight chairs made from steel, with seats attached to a square outline that reminds the window frame. The collection reflects the repetitive grids of windows appearing in city apartment blocks in Hong Kong. Very consistent in its concept and form, the chairs have slight differences and nuances that make them even more interesting, such as little “stairs” leading to the seat. Ponti says: “A second glance will reveal the story behind each window: the story of the person or people that live behind that window, occasionally projecting their contours and their shadows over it. What emerges from that is a unique urban scenery made of frames and silhouettes, lights and shades, textures and colors.”

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  • A Japanese House With Five Courtyards

    Artist and architect Megumi Matsubara teamed up with Hiroi Ariyama to design a guest house and a private gallery for an art collector in Nagano Prefecture, Japan.

    Located in the forest near the town of Karuizawa, the house’s main feature is its five courtyards that provide the views of vegetation from both inside and outside of the building. A single floor residence nestles up to the surrounding trees, offering a stunning play of light and shadow both in the interior, and on the structure. “Its shape being flat and square, the house has a floor plan entirely defined by five courtyards alone. All rooms are designed to face the courtyards, each of which is distinct in character and designed to receive light at different times of the day,” say the architects.

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  • Audi Hires Photographer To Shoot Their $50,000 Car, He Uses $32 Miniature Toy Car Instead

    Marketing a car costs big bucks. Unless you hire Felix Hernandez, who doesn’t need an actual car to make the magic happen. Instead, he does it with a $32 toy replica, and as you can see from his previous miniature projects, you can’t really tell the difference.

    Even though Felix is the master of the mini-world, this project was challenging even for him: “Where I normally work with 1/18 scale models, for the Q2 launch I was commissioned to do a series of photographies using a 1/43 scale model,” says the photographer. “This was my first time doing this kind of photography with such a small model.”

    To pull it off, Felix used foam core, LEDs, and sand paper to build an indoor roadway, while his sand dunes consisted of polvo fino (fine powder) mixed with water. The settings came out looking just like the real deal and are on their way to fool millions of eyes worldwide!

    Hernandez did, however, spend some of Audi’s money to fly to Dubai with fellow photographer Adrian Sommeling where they took a shot of the Q2 in front of an iconic Middle Eastern cityscape.

    More info: hernandez dream phography (h/t: petapixel, boredpanda)

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    Check out Felix’s previous miniature projects.

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  • A Jewish Photographer Buried These Heartbreaking Photos So Nazis Couldn’t Find Them (NSFW)

    In the winter of 1944, at the height of the Holocaust, Jewish photographer Henryk Ross buried a box of photographs in the ground. Just over a year later, he returned to unearth the photos, and the tragic story they told still resonates to this day.

    Henryk Ross of Łódź, Poland was a simple news and sports photographer when German forces invaded his city in 1939. From then on, he survived by taking identity photos and propaganda shots for the Nazi Department of Statistics. While on the job, however, he risked his life to secretly document day-to-day events in the Łódź ghetto, which eventually included the deportation of its residents to death camps. Being at risk of a similar fate himself, he buried his photos near his house in a tar-sealed box, preserving evidence of the crimes against his people for future generations.

    After the liberation of Łódź by the Soviet Army in 1945, Ross came back to dig up his photos, many of which were damaged or destroyed by ground water. The ones that remained intact, though, provided an intimate look inside the lives of Polish Jews, many of whom met the most unspeakable of ends. They now call the Art Gallery of Ontario home, and live on as a memorial to the victims of the world’s largest genocide. (h/t: boredpanda)

    #1 1940-1944: A Boy Searching For Food

    #2 1940: A Man Walking In Winter In The Ruins Of The Synagogue On Wolborska Street (Destroyed By Germans In 1939)

    #3 1940: A Man Who Saved The Torah From The Rubble Of The Synagogue On Wolborska Street

    #4 1940-1942: Woman With Her Child (Ghetto Policemen’s Family)

    #5 1940-1944: Deportation In Winter

    #6 1940-1944: Portrait Of A Couple

    #7 1944: Food Pails And Dishes Left Behind By Ghetto Residents Who Had Been Deported To Death Camps

    #8 1940: Henryk Ross Photographing For Identification Cards, Jewish Administration, Department Of Statistics

    #9 1940-1944: Sign For Jewish Residential Area (“Jews. Entry Forbidden”)

    #10 1942: Children Being Transported To Chelmno Nad Nerem (Renamed Kulmhof) Death Camp

    #11 1940-1944: A Group Of Women With Sacks And Pails, Walking Past Synagogue Ruins Heading For Deportation

    #12 1940-1944: Young Girl

    #13 1940-1944: A Sick Man On The Ground

    #14 1942: Police With Woman Behind Barbed Wire At The Ghetto

    #15 1940-1944: Woman Sitting In The Ruins Of The Synagogue On Wolborska Street, Destroyed By The Germans In 1939

    #16 1944: A Mass Deportation Of Ghetto Residents

    #17 1940: Baking Flat Bread

    #18 1940-1944: “Soup For Lunch” (Group Of Men Alongside Building Eating From Pails)

    #19 1940-1944: A Nurse Feeding Children In An Orphanage

    #20 1940-1944: A Smiling Child

    #21 1945: Henryk Ross’ Excavating His Hidden Box Of Negatives And Documents From The Lodz Ghetto

    #22 1940-1942: Lodz Ghetto Prison At Czarnecki Street, A Rallying Point Before Deportation

    #23 1942: Evacuation Of The Sick

    #24 1940-1944: A Boy In A Doorway Swing

    #25 1940-1944: Abandoned Body, Decomposing In Field

    #26 1940-1944: Babies Lying On Floor Mat, Probably In The Hospital Nursery

    #27 1940-1944: Body For Burial Tagged ’54’

    #28 1940-1944: Children In Pond Searching For Items To Salvage

    #29 1940-1944: Skulls And Bones On Ground

    #30 1942–1944: Lodz Ghetto Police Escorting Residents For Deportation

    #31 1940-1944: A Group Of Young Residents Standing In A Line

    #32 1940-1944: Corpses And Body Parts In The Morgue

    #33 1940-1944: Delivery Of Potatoes To The Ghetto

    #34 1940-1944: Nurse Holding Baby Before Surgery

    #35 1940-1944: Portrait Of Stefania Schoenberg Posing In The Window

    #36 1940-1944: The Removal Of Feces In The Ghetto By Men And Women Workers

    #37 1940-1944: A Boy Walking In Front Of The Bridge Crossing Zigerska (The “Aryan”) Street

    #38 1940-1944: A Wedding In The Ghetto

    #39 1942: Men Hauling Cart For Bread Distribution

    #40 1940-1944: A Scarecrow With A Yellow Star Of David

    #41 1940-1944: Residents Sorting Belongings Left Behind After Deportation

    #42 1940-1944: Young Girl Among The Greenery

    #43 1940-1944: Youth Selling Goods On The Street

    #44 1945: Three Men After Liberation By The Red Army

    #45 1940-1944: Woman Posing With A Mail Truck

    #46 1940-1944: A Corpse Is Taken Away

    #47 1940-1944: A Jewish Policeman With His Wife And Child In Marysin

    #48 1940-1944: Ghetto Buildings

    #49 1940-1944: Man Brushing Hide In The Leather Factory

    #50 1940-1944: Man Working In A Workshop (“Resort”) In The Ghetto

    #51 1940-1944: Portrait Of Two Women

    #52 1940-1944: Two Young Women Observing The Bridge At Koscielyn Square, Crossing Zigerska Street

    #53 1940-1944: A Festive Occasion

    #54 1940-1944: A Performance Of ‘Shoemaker Of Marysin’ In The Factory

    #55 1944: A Boy Walks Among A Crowd Of People Being Deported In Winter

    #56 1940-1944: Workers Breaking Rocks

    #57 1940-1944: Young Girls And Boys Working In A Workshop (“Resort”) In The Ghetto

    #58 1940-1944: Delegation After Liberation

    #59 1940-1944: A Woman Sewing In A Workshop (“Resort”) In The Ghetto

    #60 1940-1944: Children Looking Out The Window

    #61 1942: Ghetto Residents Held For Deportation

    #62 1940-1944: In The Bakery

    #63 1940-1944: Male Factory Worker Unloading Mattress Springs

    #64 1940-1944: Man And A Boy Looking Out The Window

    #65 1940-1944: Men Pulling Road Press

    #66 1940-1944: Residents Sitting On The Street

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  • Street Photography With A Twinkling Eye By Matt Stuart

    Self-taught photographer Matt Stuart walks through the streets for hours taking snapshots of moments that other people might not even notice.

    Some of Stuart’s most stunning works reflect the lively streets of his hometown London, collected in his book “All that life can afford“.

    Since his career as a photographer on the streets is governed by coincidences and not predictable, Stuart never leaves the house without his camera. On an average he uses about three film rolls per day. As an advice for beginners in street photography Stuart states: “Buy a good pair of comfortable shoes, have a camera around your neck at all times, keep your elbows in, be patient, optimistic and don’t forget to smile.“ The photographer’s humour is obvious in many of his shots and makes the viewer smile as well.

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  • Mixed-Media Collages By Artmour

    Digital Artist Elodie Milan alias “Artmour“ makes collages by layering incoherent images and in this way creates new inspiring impressions. In this process she uses various fashion editorials, mixes them up and reinterprets patterns, fabric structures and picture composition. Milan experiments with the rearrangement of classic art pieces as well as with viewing habits created by advertising industry to provoke a novel visual experience.

    All collages © Artmour

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  • Painful Tokyo Rush Hour Captured Up Close And Personal By Michael Wolf

    Tokyo-based German photographer Michael Wolf invites you to take a look at the Japanese capital through the eyes of the city’s daily commuter. And as you’re about to see, that sight is actually quite horrendous.

    Michael first took notice of the incredibly crowded Tokyo’s subways back in 1995, after the infamous sarin gas attacks on the city’s subway system. He then spent years going into the subway with his camera to capture people stuck in this claustrophobic nightmare of a commute.

    The result is a series the photographer called “Tokyo Compression,” and the artist had some harsh words while describing it: “These people are squeezed against the back walls as more and more people are shoveled in,” he told CNN. “You’re living life as a sardine — it’s horrific. This is not a dignified way of living. It’s like looking into a ride in hell.”

    More info: michael wolf (h/t: hackmagazine)

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  • Art Industrial – A Collaboration Between Studio Dessuant Bone and Allaert Aluminum

    It is the first work of the designer’s limited edition design array called Art Industrial. “Each piece in the collection is an emotive expression of this recent collaboration“, state the designers. After the critical acclaim for Perpetual Motion, a series of animated installations presented at Biennale Interieur in 2016, the design duo has now introduced their lounger which is hand-crafted in Kortrijk, Belgium. As one can see, the core materials are glass and aluminum. The day bed will also be part of the show ‘Crystallized’ at Spazio Nobile gallery in Brussels from February 23 to April 15.

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  • 10+ Comical Street Photos From 1950s France By René Maltête

    During the 1950s and ’60s, street photography was just starting to take foot as an art form, and French photographer René Maltête gave it a push with his candid and humorous scenes.

    In 1951, Maltête moved to Paris at the age of 21, and bought a Semflex 6×6 camera 3 years later in hopes of pursuing a serious photography career. His big break, however, came with a series of photos that were slightly less than serious. He became known for his ‘stumbled-upon’ scenes of street life that teemed with ironic humor, showing how the funniest things that happen in life are often just a matter of good timing.

    Though René Maltête sadly passed away in 2000, his work continues to be published and praised. Have a look at some of his best shots below.

    More info: René Maltête (h/t)

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