Mountains
& collectHis series Vallées du Soleil and Alpenrose deal with the artificial landscapes of mass tourism in high alpine areas. Maximilians striking images show what is usually only looked at through the gaze of snow-covered stereotypes. Via www.mxdesigns.de
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Inspirations.
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...
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...
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.
Manufactured Landscapes
We've created landscapes dense with human history, layered with the traces of our experience and cri...
Observatoires
Noémie Goudal is a French artist who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010 with an MA in ...
Palatial Eliasson
Danish Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson (born 1967) works in a wide variety of mediums, including in...
OZ
OZ was an underground magazine first published in Sydney in 1963. A second version appeared in Londo...
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...
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...
Guiseppe Galli da Bibiena
Guiseppe Galli da Bibiena (Parma, 1696-Berlin, 1756) was painter, draftsman, event and theatre desig...
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.
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 2015 best of penccil
This was an extraordinary year. The world went through a series of shocks and shake-ups, and in betw...
Bulb
Bulb: Handblown glass hooks. Different sizes and colours decorate the wall and help you organize.
D...
RoundAbout
RoundAbout: The geometrical shape of this side table creates a strong graphical image. The component...
The Other Side
There's always another side, other stories and new faces behind the glamorous curtains of the fashio...
Spatial Objects
Spatial Objects is the result of Dan Holdsworth’s ongoing enquiry into contemporary photographic p...
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 ...
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...
Forward Retreat
Mark Tansey was born in California. He attended art classes at the San Francisco Art Institute and s...
Roberto Burle Marx: Landscaping Brazil
Roberto Burle Marx, considered to be the father of modern landscape architecture, was abstract paint...
Technological Exaptation
Images by photographer and set designer Maxime Guyon, currently living and working between Lyon (Fra...
Parisian Still Lifes
Photographer Romain Bernardie James, born 1980, lives and works in Paris.
Lucha Libre
A small set of ´Lucha Libre´-posters found by Dutch graphic designer Hans Gremmen at a printer in ...
Volkswagen Jetta
Herla King,2010-2012. Mirror and colored vinyls & spray-paint on 1984 Volkswagen Jetta. Etienne Bard...
Inside is Out - Outside is In
photography by Thomas Skou, Copenhagen.
Aeronauts
Photographer Benedict Redgrove was born in Woodley near Reading, England. He studied at Berkshire Co...
Pavel Tchelitchew: Spiral head
Pavel Tchelitchew (Па́вел Фёдорович Чели́щев) (1898 - 1957) was a surrealist ...
Ramona Rosales Portraits
Photographer Ramona Rosales lives and works in Los Angeles.
Memory & Form
Paul is an Australian-Taiwanese photographer living and working in New York. He studied in Milano an...
Low Tech
Kevin Twomey´s first study of light came from studying theatrical lighting where he learned the abi...
BRANCHES & TREES
Line structures from branches and trees against the sky or as a reflection
White Rooms
Photographer Wouter Hogendorp from Den Haag documents the beauty of architectural details: light, th...
Dominik Tarabanski
Photographer Dominik Tarabanski was born in Poland. He lives and works in NYC.
New York by Louis Faurer
Louis Faurer (1916 – 2001) was an American fashion and street photographer. The significance of h...
The Long River
Nadav Kander came to China several times in 2005 to 2007, visited 186 cities and traveled along the ...
Things As They Are
Erin O´Keefe is a visual artist and architect based in New York City and New Brunswick, Canada. She...
It Must Be Beautiful
Bus stop embellishments in Belarus.
Photographer Alexandra Soldatova was born in 1983. She graduated...
Seventies Portraits
Beautiful black and white portraits from the seventies.
Time Bandits
Visual communication artist Sabine Marx-Nieder is based in Munich, Germany.
Simon Vahala ....things that simply just happen
... things that simply just happen, with no one noticing or caring. The subject? Nature inscribed by...
André Kertész
André Kertész (1894-1985) was born in Austria-Hungary. In 1912, he bought his first camera and m...
Muhamma
Happy days in the town of Muhamma, Kerala, India.
Images (C) Mario Gagliardi 2014.
Hotel Metropole
Hotel Metropole, Mysore, India. This remarkable building was constructed by the Maharaja of Mysore t...
The ghost of Vasco Da Gama
Kappad beach near Kozhikode (Calicut), India, where the Portuguese explorer Vasco Da Gama landed on ...
Travel Stories
Images from Taichung, Taiwan; Honolulu, Hawaii, USA; Atlanta, Georgia, USA; Berlin, Germany; Frankfu...
Cope: Product
Raised in Maryland, photographer Nicholas Alan Cope moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and attended the Ar...
Cope: Architecture
Raised in Maryland, photographer Nicholas Alan Cope moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and attended the Ar...
Parc de la Villette, Paris
The participants in the 1982 architecture competition for the Parc de la Villette in Paris saw submi...
Seen or remembered
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
Ben...
Postcards from Miami
Art Deco in Miami Beach. Photos (C) Mario Gagliardi
Brasilia, Brazil
Brasilia, Brazil, 1997. Photos have been taken on an analog camera with Kodachrome Film. (C) Mario G...
The medium is the message
World records: a tribute to analog acoustic art by Kai Schäfer. The great albums in music history...
also:
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 ...
PAISAJES DE L'EMPORDÀ
Collage
VEOVEO
Painting
SÚBER
Sculpture
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 ...
Looking West
Glimpses at sunset,
Snapshots of beauty,
How deep the sea,
Cliffs that soar away.
Imaginings of the ...
Paris
Paris 2019. (C) Mario Gagliardi
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.
Dawson
Yukon Territory, Canada
Territorium: Ars - Techne-Krafts-Cosmovisión
Colección de imágenes que soportan investigación a nivel de postgrado: Maestría
Estudios Territ...
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
Holodeck
A vitual holodeck where experimental objects are constantly being built and unbuilt. Move your mouse...
Mechanical Suprematist
Experience interesting architectural compositions being created as you look around. This generator w...
Immersive sketch
Travel through an animated architectural sketch (move mouse to look around): http://mariogagliardi.c...
The shape of clouds
"Outside, the land stretches, empty, to the horizon; the sky opens, with speeding clouds. In the sha...
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
Glowscape
Study for a LED light installation. LED diodes are installed on a net of wires and placed over the l...
American Food
Davide Luciano is a New York based conceptual food and beverage photographer and motion artist. His ...
The art of improvising art
The recently abandoned administrative headquarters of Austrian Post, an imposing turn of the century...
“I perhaps owe it to flowers that I became a painter.”
Arguably the most important painter of gardens in the history of art, Monet was also an avid horticu...
Total Automation
In The Promise of Total Automation, artists examine technology in its complexity. They point out our...
Franz De Lacroix
Model: Franz De Lacroix / Average is Boring
Photographer: Paulina Wyszynska
Struth: Nature & Politics
Thomas Struth´s work shows us highly complex equipment, structures and constructions. His pictures ...
Obsolete Distinction
In contemporary society, the digital world pervades the physical to such an extent that any distinct...
L’ITALIA CI GUARDIA
On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Italian Republic, 40 masters of photogra...
Design & Politics
Photo series "design and politics" by Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, born in 1982 i...
Julius Shulman: Visual Drama
"Julius had an eye for visual drama. With modernist buildings, he loved capturing the strong lines s...
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...
