In the last 25 years, Scottish-born Canadian photographer David McMillan has made 21 trips to the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. Also referred to as the “Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant Zone of Aliena...
Japanese photographer Yukihito Masuura’s black and white photographs document the ritual reconstruction and reconsecration of Izumo Oyashiro, Japan’s most sacred Shinto shrine. The work will ...
Since 1993, Peter Steinhauer has documented many facets of Asian culture, particularly architecture, urban landscapes, and man-made structures and environments. On his first visit to Hong Kong ne...
The Getty Center in Los Angeles was in the news recently when the Skirball Fire passed near by, making for dramatic visuals but, as a recent article explained, keeping the artworks inside safe in...
This year is the 150th anniversary of the birth of architect Frank Lloyd Wright—his radical designs are currently being celebrated at the Museum of Modern Art, and his buildings, as seen by arc...
The James A. Farley Post Office opened in 1914 on Eighth Avenue between 31st and 32nd Streets in New York City, a few years after its neighbor, Pennsylvania Station. Both buildings were designed ...
For more than a quarter century, Thomas R. Schiff has used his distinctive panorama technique to record places and buildings as no one else sees them, positioning his 360-degree camera high in th...
Brian Pearson’s spare black and white cityscapes and desert views reduce the environment to dark, minimalist compositions. The images, on view at Robin Rice Gallery in New York City in a show o...
In Serge Najjar’s playful images, architecture is punctuated with the human form to make precise, poetic abstractions. Shot mostly in Beirut, where Najjar lives, the images are on view in his f...
Soaring vaulted ceilings, elaborate skylights and rows of columns—they don’t make power plants like they used to. In the new book Palazzos of Power: Central Stations of the Philadelphia Elect...
Starting in the 1850s, the craze for World’s Fairs swept across Europe and North America, leaving in its wake elaborate buildings designed to represent an idealized vision of the future. Since ...
As travel to Cuba from the U.S. becomes easier, Havana will no doubt continue to attract photographers, drawn to its crumbling pastel walls and streets dotted with vintage cars. Bernhard Hartmann...
Minor White once called Yasuhiro Ishimoto a “visual bi-linguist,” an apt description of Ishimoto’s fluidity in both of Japanese and American art and photography. Born in California in 1921 ...
This week, the 15th International Architecture Exhibition opens at La Biennale di Venezia, and for the next six months, architects and their fans from around the world will come to see hundreds o...
In the fall of 2012, Kathy Ryan, longtime director of photography at The New York Times Magazine, began an extracurricular project. Inspired by the patterns of light and shadow that filled the of...
Noah Addis and Kai Caemmerer present two opposing but related views of urban life in “Future Cities,” a show on view until March 28 at Pictura Gallery in Bloomington, Indiana. Caemmerer’s i...
While the last decade found Olivo Barbieri flying above cities from Venice to Shanghai for his “Site Specific” series, his first explorations of the shape and structure of cities were made at...
A bit like the real Chartres, Markus Brunetti‘s photo of the French cathedral must be seen in person to be appreciated. Standing ten feet tall, the hyper-detailed image arguably reveals more of...
The photographer Theonepointeight‘s moniker is a reference to his first camera lens. His background in photography stems from his interest in graffiti and street art. He photographed folks l...
David Leventi, a New York City-based photographer, visited nineteen countries across four continents to create images featured in his new book, Opera (Damiani, June 2015). Leventi specializes in ...