Mitch Epstein - American Power

From series American Power, 2005-8.

Dan Holdsworth

Takashi Homma

Shonan International Village, Kanagawa, 1995-8.

Makuhari Bay Town 4, 1995.

Takashi Homma photographs newly built suburban housing in Japan and the highly strategised landscaping around it. Particularly looking at the houses at the edge of the developments. Looks at dehumanising impact and the politics of housing developments, and the industrial use of land.

Walter Niedermayr

Themes of commodification and invasion of nature by man.

"He raises questions about our desire, when we are on holiday, to feel like we are in the ungovernable forces of nature, but always safe in the knowledge that our creature comforts are within reach." Charlotte Cotton, from The Photograph as Contemporary Art.

Petra Cortright

Landscape 5-15-05

Petra Cortright is a cool internet artist. The best thing about her is how she responds to bad comments on her youtube videos:

• what was the point of these video seriously? lol

  Sk8tingLearner 2 years ago

• syuck my dick sk8r fag

  petracortright 2 years ago 8

  
  

  
  

  
  

  From : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPaCCBE-K1g

Haruka Ono

British frozen food in a tabletop freezer, 2010. frozen food, water, thread, arranged in a freezer, 49 x 47 x 45cm

Sam Griffin

Make No Little Plans', 2010

27(w)x 60(h)x 30(d)cm

Aluminium composite, pebbles, aloe vera plant

Unique

Delta City', 2010

70(w) x 102(h) x 70(d) cm

Aluminium composite, pebbles, plant

Unique

Melanie Bonajo

from Modern Life of The Soul, 2007.

Extracts from Press release from Galerie Fons Welters

Melanie Bonajo & Kinga Kielczynska

In the forests of Eastern Poland, a sacred cult has formed that has withdrawn from the outside world and worships nature. Living in houses made of growing plants, its members have turned their backs on the modern world. These eco-extremists believe that the origins of humankind lie in plant life, and seek to reverse evolution by living like plants. Far from the hectic life of modern society, they celebrate the existence of the forest in a spiritual way, with special altars and mystical ceremonies.

In modern society, nature has become a subordinate product amid a wealth of other products, and people have become alienated not only from their natural surroundings but also from their own nature. In an attempt to reverse this process, Melanie Bonajo and Kinga Kielczynska explore the extent to which it is possible for us to re-insert ourselves into the holistic system. In the radical reversals of the Polish cult, a near-religious refuge has been created that denies progress. The artists adopt a documentary-like presentation, showing us a glimpse of this outlandish community, absorbed in a quest for something that may in fact never have existed. The cult members have relinquished control over their lives, hoping that a lost intuition will take over.

Aleix Plademunt - Espectadors

Espectadors, 2006.

Los Angeles House- Tim Street Porter

Outstanding houses from Tim Street-Porter's book Los Angeles House.

All text and photos Tim Street Porter.

The Storer House by Frank Lloyd Wright

The Samuels-Novarro House by Lloyd Wright

The Kings Road House by Rudolf Schindler

The Hollyhock House by Frank Lloyd Wright

The Dolores Del Rio House by Cedric Gibbons and Douglas Honnold

The Adamson House by Stiles Clements

The Ackerberg House by Richard Meier

Sortiglium by Tony Duquette

Schnabel House by Frank Gehry

Joshua Tree by Schweitzer/Bim

Castillo Del Lago by John Delario

Casa Bienvenita by Addison Mizner

The Gamble House by Greene and Greene

Dawnridge by Tony Duquette
Houses from Tim Street Porter's book, Los Angeles House

Taishi Hirokawa, Photographer

I first found Taishi Hirokawa's name when I was looking in Sophie Calle's Take Care of Yourself book for who had done the photography of the contributors. I think the portraits of the contributors are beautiful and was also was glad to see that she had given up authorship of these portraits to another photographer. Taishi Hirokawa was used by Calle to photograph the Bunkuru sequence. It makes me feel more confident when I give up authorship of the photography in my work.

I was interested to look at his own projects:

TIME AND TIDE

VEGITATION

SONOMAMA SONOMAMA

High Fashion in the Japanese Countryside, 1987

Taishi Hirokawa travels around rural Japan in a wagon loaded with designer outfits of namely, Issay Miyake, Comme de Garcon, Yohji Yamamoto and others. He meets people who live with nature, bearing sun and the earth, such as a farmer ploughing his feild, a fisherman, a man working in a gas station, a builder at work, a country watch-maker, a general grocer, an icecream man, and an amateur archeologist doing research on his own. He asks them to dress into the designer outfits on the spot and captures them on film