#modernist photographers

[kecobe]

The City Canyons at Daybreak, Trinity Church at Left Drahomir Josef Růžička (American, born Bohemia; 1870–1960) 1942 Gelatin silver print Dorotheum, Vienna

Titled in pencil on the reverse, dated

[antolingarcia69]

Palma modernista.

[germanpostwarmodern]

Entrance of the Herrentorschule (1927-30) in Emden, Germany, by Reinhold Haasis & Walter Luckau

[eohoppeofficial]

E.O. Hoppé Self Portrait, 1920.

©E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection.

[photos-of-everyday-life]

Casbah modern.

Rabat, 2023.

[starrysurrealism]

not in balance with my needs off center from my thoughts resignation is what I've come to accept this is who I am nothing adds up and everything is lopsided

[biromanticbookbabe]

I now bless you with what might be the only surviving photograph of Radclyffe Hall smiling (that I could find and I looked). 

Una smiles more often, but Hall almost never does, from what I found. 

[andzain]

The control center of Orgov Radio Optical Telescope is located in Armenia near Mount Aragats. Constructed between 1975 and 1985, this telescope became operational in 1986 and was active until 1990 before its use was halted. #socialistmodernism #sovietunion #soviet #artistwalks #walks #wanderlust . http://artist.walks.su .

[life-of-architecture]

Nowy Sącz Al. Wolności 40 mozaika z 1967 r. foto z 21 stycznia i 14 czerwca 2020

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Nowy Sącz, Poland 40 Wolności Av. mosaic from 1967 taken on 21 January and 14 June 2020

[memorabilia-memoria]

Paris ?, mai 2024

[sheltiechicago]

Sfera n.2, 1963 - J Wharrington Jr

Arnaldo Pomodoro: Perfect Spheres with Chaos Inside

Grande Disco in Milan, 1972 - Natalia Aggiato

Sfera Grande, also known as “the Tomato,” in the province of Pesaro and Urbino, Italy -Andrea Tiraboschi

Sfera n2 in De Young Museum in San Francisco - J Wharrington J

“Sfera con Sfera” made out of fiberglass is on display in the Modernist Garden at the New Orangery in Warsaw - magda_ma_nosa

[antolingarcia69]

Palma modernista. Gran Hotel (Caixaforum).

[museumsandfolk]

Empty.

[wyst]

ikea gävlebocken my beloved <3

[eretzyisrael]

By Nachum Kaplan

Hamas correctly identified that antisemitism was only dormant in the West, and that they just needed to wake the sleeping monster. They knew this because there were clear tells, such as the international media’s fixation on Israel, the over-reporting of the country, and that the Pavlovian way the conflict becomes newsworthy only when Israel responds to an attack.Hamas stuck to what has worked throughout history. The blood libel trope was modernized into accusations of genocide and deliberate starvation, while the trope of Jews being responsible for their persecution was updated with the notion that Israel had turned Gaza into an open-air prison.They leveraged their numerical advantage.With more than a billion Muslims globally, Hamas knew it had a huge virtual army it could activate on social media to reach a global audience.Hamas flooded social media with lies to exploit the Repetition Bias, a heuristic (mental shortcut) in which repeated information feels more true than new or unrepeated information. Social media repeated these lies exponentially, aided by extensive use of AI-generated “photographs.”The Palestinians also exploited another numerical advantage, the number of Muslim states, which is 48. This has given them weight in forums such as the United Nations and its various committees and bodies, creating a suited army of bureaucrats with credible titles to tell lies to the international press.Almost comically, Iran has just assumed the presidency of the UN Conference on Disarmament. That is the same Islamic Republic that funds, arms, and trains Hamas in Gaza, Hezbollah in Lebanon, the Houthis in Yemen — and ships arms to Russia to use in its invasion of Ukraine.They controlled the information flow.Hamas and the Palestinian Authority have used traditional authoritarian tactics to control the information flow from areas they govern. Reporters cannot report freely or unfavorably from Palestinian-controlled territories if they want to retain access. Threats of violence keep the few unsympathetic local reporters in check.Exploiting the inability of most media to report from Gaza directly, Hamas has used local Gazan “journalists” to feed lies, distorting images, and fabricated data to the credulous international media. Time and again, the foreign press has swallowed them, including claimed civilian death toll numbers that are demonstrably untrue (and presume every person killed was a civilian).Hamas has only needed the media to report its numbers, knowing that if repeated enough, they be treated as true and that no one will pay attention to the fine print stating they are unverified. Hamas at one point even had the media complaining that Israel was simultaneously not allowing reporters access to Gaza and targeting journalists there.They mastered the 24-hour news cycle.The internet has blurred the traditional lines between print and television news, turning all news media into digital services beholden to the 24-hour news cycle.Hamas has understood that as long as it keeps manufacturing outrages, the news cycle will move on quickly, and they will never be held to account. The Qatar-funded Al Jazeera, which has the veneer of a real news organization, has played a key role in this.They have exploited a ‘post-truth’ world.Hamas recognized that the post-Modernist rot has resonated in much of the West, including across its media and universities. The belief that people cannot only have their own opinions, but their own facts, sounds laughable, but it has become worryingly normal.Political tribes express opinions mainly as identity signals, and tribal loyalty is more important to these people than truth, or even reality. Hamas has understood that this liberates it from any need to have a fact-based narrative.They use simple slogans.“

[germanpostwarmodern]

The history of postwar church architecture surely would have been significantly different if it weren’t for two things: Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel and the Second Vatican Council. Both unleashed an unprecedented creativity on the part of architects and church officials with regard to form and layout.

In 2018 photographer Jamie McGregor Smith moved to Vienna and experienced the Wotruba Church, admittedly one of the most fascinating brutalist churches. This experience nurtured his desire to discover more of these kinds of modern churches and to get behind the dichotomy of an anti-modern institution and the modern church architecture. The result is “Sacred Modernity - The Holy Embrace of Modernist Architecture”, recently published by Hatje Cantz. The book collects outstanding examples of modernist church architecture from Germany, Austria, Italy, England and Poland, with each church being presented from inside and out. The impressive selection of buildings shows the ingenious spirit with which architects approached the task: audacious concrete constructions, expressive load-bearing structures and a great variety of plans that also tell of the different liturgical requirements established by the parishes. Beyond obvious examples like Gottfried Böhm’s Neviges Pilgrimage Church or Giovanni Michelucci’s Santa Maria Immacolata Jamie McGregor Smith also photographed a number of little-known gems outside metropolitan areas. The churches are organized along characterizing theological terms, a very interesting approach that adds moments of reflection to a visually stunning book.

With that said “Sacred Modernity” deserves nothing less than an enthusiastic recommendation for anyone fascinated with the multi-sensory experience modern churches are capable of providing. A real treat!