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© Linda Ferrari. The Communist Congress Centre “Buzludia” in Kazanlak, Bulgaria.
Buzludia was one of the countless monuments erected in central Bulgaria glorifying the socialist ideology. This photograph is part of an upcoming book by Linda Ferrari Socialist Monuments in Bulgaria 1944-89: A Visual Introduction. See more of her work here.
© Stephen Mallon
Next Stop Atlantic – an exhibition of Stephen Mallon’s work is opening at the Front Room gallery on September 10th, 2010. This stunning series features the process of artificial reef building off the East Coast in the U.S. The exhibit will be running September 10th through October 3rd.
See more of Stephen Mallon’s work here.
© Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison. Courtesy Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago.
Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison, the husband and wife team whose photographic tableaus address the triangular relationship of humans, technology and nature, return to Chicago with “Beginnings,” an exhibition of collages they made when working on pieces for The Architect’s Brother. These never-before-seen images reveal the ideas and concepts that went into making some of their best known works. The exhibition opens on September 10 at the Catherine Edelman Gallery and closes on October 30.
To see more of Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison’s work click here.
© David Leventi. Romanian Athenaeum, Bucharest, Romania, 2007
An exhibition of David Leventi’s photographs, Opera Houses, is opening at the Arthur Roger Gallery on August 7th and will run through September 11th, 2010.
“The project, Bjoerling’s Larynx: World Famous Opera Houses, is titled after Jussi Björling, a Swedish operatic tenor and arguably the best singer of the century – known for his technique, feeling and the range of his voice. Bjoerling debuted at the Royal Swedish Opera in Stockholm and eventually became a principal at the Metropolitan Opera in New York. These two spaces – and the others that I have photographed thus far – are the spaces in which my grandfather, Anton Gutman, never got the chance to perform. Gutman was a cantor trained right after World War II by Helge Rosvaenge, a famous Danish operatic tenor who sang regularly with the State Operas in Berlin and Vienna. While Gutman was interned in a prisoner-of-war camp in the Soviet Union, he performed for prisoners and officers. Nearly a half-century later, I grew up listening to him sing while he walked around our living room. As the son of two architects, I experience an almost religious feeling walking into a grand space such as an opera house.” – David Leventi
To view more of Leventi’s Opera Houses click here.
© Patty Carroll
According to Chicago photographer Patty Carroll, the lawn is an arena that must be tamed and subdued. In her photographs of suburban lawns an intense curiosity arises as the unknowable lurks behind the landscapes’ shadowy ghostlines. Carroll’s work is currently on view in the exhibition, Suburbanxxx, at O’Born Contemporary in Toronto.
