I do not believe that humans have developed a sympathetic or synergistic relationship with the cities they passionately build. Enclaves of identity, bastions of activity, cities are, in contemporary times, behemoth-like organims that must be fed, have their circulatory system, and often spread, not unlike a type of virus, slowly devouring everything that lies at […]
Silver Grill Cafe, 1975 ‘When I grew up here, Vancouver was a working port town, and all the streets downtown ended at the harbour. That working port was very much a part of the feel of the city…’ – Greg Girard For almost 30 years, Canadian photographer Greg Girard has lived and worked in […]
The Rhine II, 1999 There is something very straightforward about Andreas Gursky’s photographs. It is as though he holds up a peopled landscape or a building or a workplace for our inspection, saying simply, ‘here it is’. The Iron Cage of Boredom By Julian Stallabrass There is something very straightforward about Andreas Gursky’s photographs. […]