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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.
© Joseph Rodriguez / GalleryStock.com
This photograph is part of Joseph Rodriguez’s book East Side Stories: Gang Life in East L.A. He has been documenting the American domestic environment for many years. See more of his work here.
© Roger Ballen. Bite, 2007. Image Courtesy of the Gagosian gallery.
This photograph is only one of the most wildly striking images from Roger Ballen’s book, Boarding House. See more of his work 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.
All Images © Olaf Heine.
Above: Anna Loos, Berlin, 2010.
Music has been a great source of inspiration for German photographer, Olaf Heine. I Love You but I’ve Chosen Rock is an intimate visual diary of international rock and pop celebrity portraits, and 15 years of music memorabilia collected over the photographer’s career which will be published by Hatje Cantz in September 2010.
