# Berlin Wall 1989-2009

Twenty years exactly today after the Berlin Wall felt, numerous newspapers are proposing special editions about that topic. The New York Times proposes a panel of the wall pictures related to the personal story and perception of the photographer.

# Parabolic facades by Manuel Alvarez Diestro

Transit-City published today a short post about Manuel Alvarez Diestro's photographic work in Alger about those housing buildings covered by parabolic antennas. It remains me of a very old post now...
Those pictures are being published in Polar Inertia Magazine.

# Tribute to Willy Ronis

French photographer Wily Ronis who was 99 years old died this morning.

# La vida loca by Christian Poveda

Film maker and photographer, Christian Poveda has been assassinated this week by a Salvador gang he was currently working on. Here are some pictures published today by Le Monde and another gallery on flickr illustrating what Jean-Pierre Limosin was showing in Young Yakuza and David Cronenberg in Eastern Promises, the whole story and categorization of those gangs' members tattooed on their skins. The result always surprised me in the ambiguity between a form of primitiveness and cyborg manifesto.

# SEA /// The shorebreak pictures of Clark Little

Following is a serie of pictures of the pretty popular photographer Clark little , former pro surfer.
He's going inside the water to take the best pictures of waves around the world.

Those pictures really give the feeling of being inside the waves and Clark Little really catch the critical point of the curl each time. The space created between water, light and air is pretty cool!













Many thanks to Marc Olivier for sharing this with us.

# Planete Parr in Le Jeu de Paume

A new exhibition about Martin Parr's work just opened Le Jeu de Paume (Paris). Apparently this exhibition is slightly different from the previous one in La Maison Europeenne de la Photographie, three years ago, since not only photographs are being exhibited but also various objects collected by Magnum photographer always kind to describe a culture thanks to its most burlesque elements.

# SEA /// Architectural wrecks

Following is an extract of a beautiful series of pictures of Shipwreck.


I really like the timeless aspect of those ships waitng their slow destruction by outside elements.
They looks like ruins in a desert, with no real scale ... just amazing!

# Empty cities on NDLR

Here is an article on NDLR starting from Werner Herzog's short movie La Souffriere introducing the town Saint Pierre (Guadeloupe) empty from its inhabitants because of eruption risk (La Souffriere is the local vulcano). From then, NDLR presents Nicolas Moulin (Paris) and Masakata Nakano's (Tokyo) work.
We could add to this article two movies: Vanilla sky (Cameron Crowe) and Seuls two (Eric Judor & Ramzy Bedia)

# American Theaters by Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre

Yves Marchand and Romain Meffre are photographers who released a serie about those american theaters built in the beginning of the XXth century which function evoluated depending on the society's needs and sometimes even became ruins.

Here is their presentation text:

In the early 20th century, following the development of the entertainment industry,hundreds of auditoriums were built everywhere in North America. Major entertainment firms and movie studios commissioned specialized architects to build grandiose and extravagant theaters. From the 60's, TV, multiplexes and urban crisis made them becoming obsolete. During the following decades, when they were not modernized or transformed into adult cinemas, they closed one after the other and many of them were simply demolished. Those which remain forgotten, escaping from this fate, were converted to varied purposes. Now, many are reused as churches, retail, flea markets, bingo halls, discos, supermarkets or warehouses. Some others just sit abandoned.

# Martin Liebscher's world of clones

German artist, Martin Liebscher creates photomontages that he calls Familienbilder (Family picture) where...well have a look ! He is proposing a vision from a world of clones which could recall a former boiteaoutils' article about Peter Funch's photographs yet in a more hilarious and delirious way...

# Naked City Spleen by Miru Kim

The contrast between Miru Kim's naked body and her New York, Paris, London or Berlin dusty environment is striking.
Lots of pictures on official website + this video

# Babel tales by Peter Funch

I have no idea of what is Peter Funch's purpose when he elaborates his photographs for Babel Tales, but looking at them I can see a totalitarian society where everybody belong to a specific cast which should be recognizable immediately. Ambiguity thus created is quite stunning I have to say.

pictures come from Gallery V1

# Kobas Laksa

Kobas Laksa is another photoshop genius who succeed to create new ambiguous imaginaries for the city splendid in their darkness. His work has been exhibited in last Venice Biennal's Polish pavilion.
See especially "The after life of buildings" and "City_Projekt_Warsaw".

# Michael Wolf instant

Michael Wolf in Chicago shooting the Marina City
see also this former article

# Giacomo Costa

Giacomo Costa is an Italian photographer creating visions of a future world where even sci-fi buildings would have rust and almost collapse. It could maybe be called post-future...

found on Archidose

# FIGHT WITH TOOLS /// Canyon street/Armin Linke

In a little more than one month, next G20 summit will happen in London. These pictures has been shot during G8 summit in Genoa in 2001 by Armin Linke. They show how much streets can be used as controled canyons. A lot of western cities has been replanned during XIXth century for this kind of purposes. Napoleon the 3rd/Haussmann Paris is obviouly an example of that. No more narrow network maze within urban fabric, only wide axis police can easily control. History war used to happen outside of the cities or at its periphery at least, new conflicts are now almost exclusively happenning within cities.