Laura - Louise Cottle

architectureofdoom:

Dead Cities is an eerily beautiful publication by French artist Guillaume Greff documenting the architecture of Jeoffrécourt, an artificial town of 5,000 imaginary inhabitants in Northern France. As one of several generic urban environments designed by the French military in order to achieve excellence in warfare skills, Jeoffrécourt boasts a variety of architectures, from suburban homes, housing blocks, abandoned factories, to churches and mosques, not to mention specialized components like firing ranges and trained personnel that double as opposing forces and civilians. In his unsparing photographs Greff captures an uncannily pristine, yet ultimately desolate and miserable urban environment, built with the intention of neutralizing rather than sustaining human life.

May 22

Dead Cities is an eerily beautiful publication by French artist Guillaume Greff documenting the architecture of Jeoffrécourt, an artificial town of 5,000 imaginary inhabitants in Northern France. As one of several generic urban environments designed by the French military in order to achieve excellence in warfare skills, Jeoffrécourt boasts a variety of architectures, from suburban homes, housing blocks, abandoned factories, to churches and mosques, not to mention specialized components like firing ranges and trained personnel that double as opposing forces and civilians. In his unsparing photographs Greff captures an uncannily pristine, yet ultimately desolate and miserable urban environment, built with the intention of neutralizing rather than sustaining human life.

(Source: laesquinalatina)

May 14

fashion156:

Half gentleman half femme fatale, Tony Ward is the fetish fashion hero at Fashion156 this week.

Read more here.

May 2

likeafieldmouse:

David Maisel - Library of Dust (2008)

“In 1913, the Oregon State Insane Asylum began to cremate the remains of unclaimed patients and their ashes were stored in copper canisters.

After decades in storage the canisters have undergone chemical reactions resulting in explosions of vivid blue-green corrosion. Maisel was granted access to the room in which the canisters were stored to document them for his book.”

Artist’s statement:

“Among my concerns with Library of Dust are the crises of representation that derive from attempts to index or archive the evidence of trauma; the uncanny ability of objects to portray such trauma; and the revelatory possibilities inherent in images of such traumatic disturbances.

While there are certainly physical and chemical explanations for the ways these canisters have transformed over time, the canisters also encourage us to consider what happens to our own bodies when we die, and to the souls that occupy them.”