Photography

Zoe Strauss Chronicles Philadelphia's Urbanity

Next American City Editor in Chief, Diana Lind describes how vital and particular Zoe Strauss' photographs are to the city of Philadelphia, and its cultural and political future.
19 January 2012 - 9:00am
Next American City

A Totalitarian Landscape

Images from "The Atlantic Cities" offer a glimpse into the architectural landscape of Kim Jong-Il's dictatorship in North Korea.
23 December 2011 - 7:00am
The Atlantic Cities

Transforming the City Through Photography

The photographic distortions of architect and photographer Murat Germen take cities as their target, and transform them into single-axis representations of urban form and history.
18 August 2011 - 12:00pm
Architizer

Inside California's Foreclosures

California's San Joaquin Valley has become a hotbed of foreclosed homes. But beyond mere statistics, these homes are real places, and a new series of photographs documents them as scenes of surrender and abandonment.
19 July 2011 - 9:00am
Places

Stalled Developments Documented

Photographer Daniel Kariko focuses on issues of land use in sensitive environments. His latest work looks at stalled suburban housing developments in the U.S.
21 June 2011 - 10:00am
domus

Chinese Ghost Cities on the Rise

A year after taking a look at the new but empty cities being created in China, Business Insider takes a trip back to see what's changed in those brand new and unoccupied cities.
19 June 2011 - 9:00am
Business Insider

Photographing the Exclusion Zone in Nuclear Japan

This video from VBS follows photographer Donald Weber into the exclusion zone around the Fukushima nuclear plant in Japan, where he documents the aftermath of the evacuation.
23 April 2011 - 5:00am
VBS

Photographic Legacies of Brasilia and Chandigarh

A new book of photography compares the legacies of two modernist cities: Brasilia and Chandigarh.
10 March 2011 - 10:00am
Azure

Against 'Ruin Porn'

The city of Detroit is increasingly characterized through imagery of its abandoned and decaying buildings. This piece from The New Republic says it's time to stop.
24 January 2011 - 9:00am
The New Republic

Inside China's Ghost Towns

This post from Business Insider collects satellite imagery and pictures of ghost towns in China.
23 December 2010 - 5:00am
Business Insider

A Look at the New Hoover Dam Bridge

This collection of photographs from Smithsonian documents the construction of the recently opened bypass bridge at the Hoover Dam.
17 December 2010 - 11:00am
Smithsonian

A Photographic Tour of a Foreclosure Hotbed

Modesto, California has one of the highest rates of foreclosure in the U.S. This collection of photography documents the city's abandoned homes.
10 December 2010 - 7:00am
Telstar Logistics

The Modern-Day Reality of New Deal Utopias

This slideshow from Design Observer takes a look at New Deal-era utopian cities as they exist today.
25 November 2010 - 1:00pm
Design Observer

A Look at Contemporary Berlin

This photo slideshow from Places offers a look at the city of Berlin and the fast pace of change underway there.
14 November 2010 - 7:00am
Places

Photographing a Decade of Difference in East Germany

After a trip through Eastern Germany in 1990 photographing blasted out buildings from World War Two, photographer Stefan Koppelkamm's second trip ten years later revealed vastly renovated places -- to his disappointment.
1 October 2010 - 7:00am
Der Spiegel

Looking Down on Sprawl

Writing in The New York Times, Geoff Manaugh looks at Christoph Gielen's aerial photography of urban development and sprawl.
20 September 2010 - 9:00am
The New York Times

Pictures of the World's Fastest-Growing City

Wired presents a slideshow of photography exploring the booming Chinese city of Chongqing -- the fastest growing urban center in the world.
27 August 2010 - 7:00am
Wired

A Snapshot of Contemporary Land Use in America

This slideshow from Dwell gives a sneak peek at a new group art exhibit in New York that documents contemporary land use in America.
22 July 2010 - 6:00am
Dwell

Locals vs Tourists Mapped Through Photography

Eric Fischer uses Flickr geodata to visualize where photos are taken in cities, and by whom. The result is a colorful divide between tourists and locals in a variety of cities around the world.
19 June 2010 - 9:00am
The Map Room

Photographing a Decade of Change in New York City

More than 100 photographers were set out on the streets of New York as part of a six month project to document the changes the city has gone through over the past decade.
5 June 2010 - 5:00am
The Architect's Newspaper
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