The aesthetics of emptiness
Pictures of empty and abandoned spaces in the US and Japan
Abandoned buildings and places have always invited photography – Derek Yates sent us this link to a Japanese site jam-packed with elegant emptiness (above and below). There are many more – let us know about your favourites.
In fact there’s a Common Knowledge piece about Drive-Ins cinemas in the forthcoming Eye (no. 70), by Mike Kippenhan, who pointed out that even the working cinemas looked abandoned (below).
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December 11th, 2008 at 6:47 pm | by KT
try Web Urbanist – http://weburbanist.com/abandoned-buildings-towns-and-cities/
December 12th, 2008 at 7:33 pm | by toxi
Oh there’s definitely Elena’s (Kid of Speed) photo story about her bike trips through the area around Tschernobyl: http://www.kiddofspeed.com/
December 17th, 2008 at 12:08 pm | by Eye blog » Northern Dreams Gentlemen’s entertainment in eastern Wyoming
[...] of the ‘Aesthetics of emptiness’, Mike Kippenhan also sent us this picture of Northern Dreams (above), a gentlemen’s club in [...]
December 17th, 2008 at 1:32 pm | by Mark Murph
My friend David Rowan’s website has just gone live and is along these lines… images from Birmingham UK.
http://www.davidrowan.org
well worth a look
January 4th, 2009 at 5:09 pm | by Liz Farrelly
Turning trespass into an art form, the zine, and now website, Infiltration, has been exploring and celebrating abandoned buildings and man-made structures for over a decade; it was featured in “Zines”, a book I co-authored for Booth-Clibborn Editions (2001).
http://www.infiltration.org/