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Inspirations.
Une Cité Industrielle by Tony Garnier
Tony Garnier designed the plans of an ideal city during his stay at the Villa Médicis from 1899 to ...
Obsolete Distinction
In contemporary society, the digital world pervades the physical to such an extent that any distinct...
Liqen
Liqen was born in 1980, in Vigo, a port and industrial city of Galicia, in Spain. Since very little,...
L’ITALIA CI GUARDIA
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Italian Republic, 40 masters of photogra...
The Glass House
"This house was Philip Johnson's autobiography—all of his interests were visible, and all of his a...
Design & Politics
Photo series "design and politics" by Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, born in 1982 i...
20th Century Italian Tables
A collection of 20th century Italian table designs.
The Oily Actor
“I had been looking around these ideas of systemic crisis, global financial crisis, which is what ...
Julius Shulman: Visual Drama
"Julius had an eye for visual drama. With modernist buildings, he loved capturing the strong lines s...
Robert Slezak
A trained locksmith from Bystrice pod Hostýnem, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Robert Sl...
Memories of Ruins: Rebecca Bathory
Finding beauty in darkness, poetry and meaning in the forgotten and surreal, imaginary worlds amongs...
Toshio Onda
Japanese Fashion photographer Toshio Onda studied at the University of West England. He lives in Par...
Rayan Ayash
Rayan Ayash is a Fashion Photographer based in New York & Paris.
Jorge Zalszupin and L'Atelier
Jorge Zalszupin (b. 1922), a native of Warsaw, Poland, studied architecture at Bucharest's Ecole des...
Palmyra, End of March, 2016
Palmyra. City of Mesopotamia, city of the Phoenicians, of the Assyrians, the Greeks, the Persians, a...
The end of history - La fin de l´histoire
"Belief in progress is irresistible. In flattering the eye it blinds us. Standing in the middle of t...
Blast
Naoya Hatakeyama was born in 1958 in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Hatakeyama, a student of Kiyoji Otsuji...
Bring the outside in: The houses of Joseph Eichler
“Eichlers,” as they are referred to in California, are midcentury modern tract homes developed b...
Harrison and Abramovitz
Architects Wallace Harrison and Max Abramovitz, who worked independently in New York in a partnershi...
Man. Kiki. Lee.
The muses of Emmanuel Radnitzky (Man Ray)
"All I need is an onion, a bit of bread, and a bottle of ...
Conformity
“Modern man has become a cog in a very complex society. We live in a society that praises individu...
Bubble
The Bubble series by Melvin Sokolsky for Harper’s Bazaar 1963. Melvin Sokolsky (born 1933) is an A...
Uncanny Bodies
There is a space of imagination stretching between brain, lens and body: Photography by Ariana Molly...
Trees in Winter
A series utilizing random patterns in nature to reveal mathematical beauty, by Ansen Seale.
Woman. Black. White.
Black and white photos of charismatic women.
Alain Georges Frank Jacquet
Alain Georges Frank Jacquet was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine in 1939. After studying drama at the Unive...
Sketching: Bellini, Castiglioni, Colombo, Mari, Magistretti, Munari, Ponti, Sottsass
The essence of a classic design is best seen in its very first sketch. A unique selection of sketche...
Observatoires
Noémie Goudal is a French artist who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010 with an MA in ...
101 x 101
AFTER STUDYING GRAPHIC AND PRODUCT DESIGN AT THE STATE UNIVERSITY FOR ART AND DESIGN KARLSRUHE IN GE...
Mass, space, plane and line
"The essence of architecture is the interrelation and interaction of mass, space, plane and line. Th...
E. Hu
Eric Hu is an art director based in New York. He previously worked as the design lead at OKFocus. Er...
Nauru
Nauru was first inhabited at least 3,000 years ago. Inhabitants caught ibija fish, acclimatised them...
SCHNAPPVIECHER
The Krampus in Salzburg, Austria was the first beast Charles Fréger encountered during his two-yea...
Superheroes
Paola Mathe, born in Petionville, Haiti, lives and works in New York City. She holds a BA in econom...
Serge Mouille
Serge Mouille (1922-1988) studied under Gilbert Lacroix at the École des Arts Appliqués in Paris. ...
Angelo Mangiarotti
Angelo Mangiarotti was born in Milano in 1921. He graduated in Architecture in 1948 at Politecnico d...
The contemporary condition
Fred Guillaud (France, 1973) is photographer, architect and teacher. He lives and works in Barcelon...
Orange mecanique
Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, was born in 1982 in France. He graduated from ECAL ...
"I’m an outsider"
Born in New York City in 1928, William Klein studied sociology while enrolled at City College of New...
Sadamitsu Neil Fujita
Sadamitsu Fujita was born in Waimea, Hawaii to Japanese immigrants. He attended boarding school in H...
Stan Galli
Illustrator Stan Galli (1912 - 2009) attended the California School of Fine Arts and was recruited a...
Spacecraft
Raised in Maryland, Nicholas Alan Cope moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and attended Art Center College ...
Josef Sudek
Josef Sudek (b. March 17, 1896, Kolin, Bohemia – d. September 15, 1976) was a Czech photographer, ...
Mirrors
Jeannette Montgomery Barron was born in 1956 in Atlanta and studied at the International Center of P...
Roland Rainer
Roland Rainer, born 1910 in Klagenfurt, studied at the Technical University in Vienna. His dissertat...
Charles Negre
Charles Negre is an independent studio photographer living and working in Paris.
Harry Seidler
Harry Seidler was born in Vienna in 1923 as son of Rose and Max Seidler. Rose was able to pursue her...
Supercars
Max Siedentopf grew up in Windhoek, Namibia and continued to live in Berlin and Los Angeles. He curr...
Life Is Electric. Philippe Weisbecker
Born in 1942, Weisbecker studied interior design in Paris. By 1968 he moved to New York. First worki...
constructing meaning in 3 steps
Frank Hülsbömer was born 1968 in Münster/Germany.
Iraq
Photojournalist Luke Wolagiewicz lives in London. Over the last 15 years he has worked across the Mi...
The Way Of The Light
Vasa Mihich studied at the Academy of Applied Arts, University of Belgrade, Yugoslavia. Mihich has l...
The 2015 best of penccil
This was an extraordinary year. The world went through a series of shocks and shake-ups, and in betw...
Radebaugh and Bohn
Arthur C. Radebaugh (1906-1974) was an American illustrator, airbrush artist, and designer. Some of...
The Other Side
There's always another side, other stories and new faces behind the glamorous curtains of the fashio...
Oskar Schlemmer: Das Triadische Ballett
After Walter Gropius founded the stage workshop in 1921, Oskar Schlemmer, the head of the stage work...
Spatial Objects
Spatial Objects is the result of Dan Holdsworth’s ongoing enquiry into contemporary photographic p...
picking figs in the ˚̥̞̞̽̽ͯ garden while my world eats Itself
picking figs in the ˚̥̞̞̽̽ͯ garden while my world eats Itself is a curatorial poetry collabor...
CHROMAesthesiae
CHROMAesthesiae is a landscape of color populating space in high contrast-gradated clusters. This in...
Hello Winter
Hello winter . A small selection of landscape photography made in the Atlantic islands of Azores dur...
Silent Geography
Silent Geography is a site-specific installation consisting of Hazard's torn paper constructed lands...
Ankara: From pioneering modernism to revivalist mimicry
Ankara: Öncü modernizmden öykünmeci mimesise
Murat Germen is an artist using photography as an ...
UN_NATURAL BESTIARY
In this work Andrea Alessio collects, as in an ancient bestiary, a series of animal images. The fore...
ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN
I would like to introduce this new series of photos by Andrea Alessio by appealing to an axiom that ...
John James Audubon and the Golden Eagle
R Kikuo Johnson grew up on the island of Maui. He began a career in cartooning and illustration wit...
Behind the walls
Paolo Ventura was born in Milan in 1968. His work has been exhibited in museums and private gallerie...
Lo Zuavo Scomparso
Paolo Ventura was born in Milan in 1968. His work has been exhibited in museums and private gallerie...
Antonio Sant´Elia: The house of concrete, glass and steel
"No architecture has existed since 1700. A moronic mixture of the most various stylistic elements us...
Forward Retreat
Mark Tansey was born in California. He attended art classes at the San Francisco Art Institute and s...
Gio Ponti, Architetto
Gio Ponti (born Nov. 18, 1891, Milan, Italy—died Sept. 15, 1979, Milan) graduated in 1921 from the...
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Night Stories
(C) Mario Gagliardi 2014
Choreography of pictorial fetishes
Afterword by WM Hunt
These are photographs.
These exist uniquely as photographs. The artist, Manuel ...
VIENTO EN POPA
Mixed Technique
Tree Calligraphy
The fingers of the Ents splayed out reaching to connect with all who listen and feel.
Bus station
Photos captured as a part of incomplete project looking to be completed.
Twenty Twentyone
Impressions from Vienna in the latter half of 2021. Images by Mario Gagliardi.
Parallel Universe
Sometimes, you can catch one of these scenes when things seem less real, as if another version of re...
Surface N° 2
Arctic Paper presents Surface N° 2 – a second edition featuring a specially curated selection of ...
Casa Sperimentale
One of the most visionary built experiments of 20th century architecture was created through the per...
Last and First Men
The first and last movie by iconic Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson (1969 - 2018). With his mu...
Laurel Hills Residence
A beautiful example of a contemporary Californian residence, designed by Assembledge architects. The...
Los Angeles
Traveling with Google Maps
Pulp Fiction
A selection of American and Mexican Pulp Fiction covers from the nineteen-forties.
Cazal
Glasses by German manufacturer Cazal were considered a sought-after accessory in New York's hip-hop ...
Paris
Paris 2019. (C) Mario Gagliardi
Synecdoche [IV]
Photo-collage : Right part Sarah Moon photography for Pirelli Calendar, 1972; left part, unknown pho...
The e-scooter Boom
The German Ministry of Transport announced that it will legalize e-scooters as road vehicles. All Ge...
Street Life
Photographic impressions in the streets of Tokyo and Kyoto. (C) Mario Gagliardi
Energy
Every photo has an energy, a direction, and a story. I do not own this story.
Bones, Stones, Sticks, & Stones
Digital photography and manipulation on paper.
Who made this chair????
mystery chair...metal work reminds me of Robert Slezák. Limited chair production by Dupre-Perrin in...
Kunio Makaewa
Kunio Maekawa was a master of Japanese modernist architecture. He learned under Le Corbusier and was...
Dawson
Yukon Territory, Canada
Writing & Design
Romantic Modern: The California Architecture of Harwell Hamilton Harris. Writer and Designer, Ted We...
Writing & Design
Casting Shadows, Auguste Rodin. Writer and Designer.
Hoi An
Ancient Town in Vietnam and South-East Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century
2...
worlds of planet earth
A set of photos from different places on Earth.
2018
life in color
the world in fun colors
Painted by Time
Inricate patterns created by lichens, made over time around the tiny cracks of ceramic tiles. (C) Ma...
penccil: This was 2017
The penccil year in review is a project selection for 2017, this year curated by Mario Gagliardi. Se...
Wayne Sorce: Urban Color
"Wayne Sorce: Urban Color" is on view from October 21st through November 30th at Joseph Bellows Gall...
The wall
photography and theoretical project about the The seperation wall between Israel and the west bank
Swiernalis
Polish alternative musician Swiernalis
Franz Kline
Around 1950, Franz Kline radically simplified painting: “Instead of making a sign you can read, yo...
Jeff Zimmerman
Jeff Zimmermann is a Chicago based artist. Born in Kentucky, Zimmerman spent his childhood among nat...
American Food
Davide Luciano is a New York based conceptual food and beverage photographer and motion artist. His ...
Memphis Posters
4 posters by the legendary Italian design collective Memphis Milano.
Franz De Lacroix
Model: Franz De Lacroix / Average is Boring
Photographer: Paulina Wyszynska
Brazil Modernism
20th century architecture in Brazil, including work by Lina Bo Bardi, Lúcio Costa, Affonso Reidy, O...
Peter Zumthor: Thinking Architecture
A selection of remarkable work by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor.
Struth: Nature & Politics
Thomas Struth´s work shows us highly complex equipment, structures and constructions. His pictures ...
Heartbeat, Heartseat
Heartbeat consists of a massive heart glowing to the rhythm of a strong, deep and low frequency hear...
 was an American fashion and street photographer. The significance of his work was lauded by insiders, among them Robert Frank, William Eggleston, and Edward Steichen, who included his work in the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) exhibitions ´In and Out of Focus´ (1948) and ´The Family of Man´ (1955).&image=https://www.penccil.com/files/U_1432_292693624822_pf90396.jpg){kind=link}
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