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Artificial Intelligence from Building Truth (2021) #simulacra #reflections #phototheory #truthclaim #constructivist #illusionphotography #indexicality #notAI #trace #disciplinesofknowledge #architecture #universityofleeds https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnw_PhjMyq1/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
Computer Science from Building Truth (2021) by Michael C Coldwell #illusionphotography #reflection #architecture #concept #truthclaim #perspective https://www.instagram.com/p/CluQb30sNfY/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=
High Street (2020) from Everything is Real. Part of this photography series was published last year in a really interesting arts journal from South Africa, called #herri. The idea came to me when thinking of a way to re-use my urban landscape photography when I couldn’t get out to shoot during the first #lockdown. #changingcity #leeds #architecture #surrealism #reflections #phototheory https://www.instagram.com/p/CT8EpKisBes/?utm_medium=tumblr
Michael C Coldwell (Dr Mick Schofield) : Beautiful hardback edition of my latest publication arrived through the door today :) Narrating the City #intellectbooks features a chapter on #rephotography and a cover by yours truly. Wrote this before CoVid, in case anyone mistakes me for someone who has been annoyingly productive this year ;) #urbanphotography #architecture #mediatedcities #memorystudies #michaelccoldwell https://www.intellectbooks.com/narrating-the-city https://www.instagram.com/p/CJuAYloHqmY/?igshid=1f1kt6ru67g8o
Facade (2020) from The Disappearing City #newtopographics #spectrality #deindustrialization #leeds #demolition #urbanexploration #minimalistphotography #absence #architecture https://www.instagram.com/p/CJrfhprnM0W/?igshid=6hww1oq5sxkz
Sky Bridge from Everything is Real (2020). Another trippy photo #illusion courtesy of #universityofleeds great #campus #architecture https://www.instagram.com/p/CFXUSUdHAa6/?igshid=1qvw6gaku1hub
Eyes in the sky. Spaces of control. The #architecture of #totalitarianism is already with us. We barely notice it. #surveillancestate https://www.instagram.com/p/CFNaUiBHNlE/?igshid=yy1pnp58whvw
Building from Everything is Real series by Michael C Coldwell (2020) #illusionphotography #symmetry #pareidolia #architecture #psychedelic #abstraction #truthclaim #photographytheory https://www.instagram.com/p/CE_Tf2YnTF2/?igshid=rf42vlhp8ryf
Narrating the City (2020, #Intellect Books) will be published November this year. The book features some of my writing on #rephotography and #slumclearance, an off shoot of my #phd on #hauntology, it also addresses the #spectrality of #photographies. The book’s cover design is one of my images from A Window on Time. You can pre-order the book here https://www.intellectbooks.com/narrating-the-city https://www.instagram.com/p/CA_JfSKH16h/?igshid=h2h6mzboe75i
Poor materials make ghosts by Michael C Coldwell. Low quality reproductions / print outs rephotographed from Failures of Presence series. I don’t even need to go back to revisit these sites of absence and decay. The memory trace fades... https://www.instagram.com/p/Bx3Al9AH9L1/?igshid=7s785iruy6if
Denys Lasdun's National Theatre, London. Photo by Gianni Galas - Check out his website for more
Reposted from The Brutalism Appreciation Society
Werner Mantz
colechuch house lovely corduroy detail
Forms. St Johannes XXIII / Cologne / 1964-69 Josef Rikus & Heinz Buchmann ©Florian Mueller
I shot this building for the first time when I was in film school at UWM. I loved old Soviet films and design, and this building looked like a ship made by Constructivists. I remember proudly turning in my black and white student film to my instructor, full of pans and tilts of the lines of the building, His reaction was “so what?”. He wanted to know what it meant.
I was at a loss for words, because my film was about a feeling for this building, and he was right to challenge me. I’ll never forget that lesson – the “so what?” of everything. Every photo I take has a “so what?” in it, and some of them I don’t have to explain.
