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One Man And His Drone
Images from the Milano Cortina 2026 games, via The Atlantic's pictorial, Different Views of the Winter Olympics, curated by Alan Taylor. (Strictly, since the photographer is from the 14th and the drone from the 9th, this isn't his drone, but I couldn't resist the title.)
Photographs credited to Dustin Satloff / Getty and Alex Pantling / Getty.
Source: The Atlantic
Wollman Rink, Central Park, New York; Empire State Bldg., N.Y.C., by Ed Pfizenmaier, 1954 (printed 1958).
Pfizenmaier is better known for his fashion photography, notably his behind the scenes work on Cecil Beaton's only Marilyn Monroe shoot, but I like this landscape, which I think must be manipulated with doubled images from the rink at the bottom half, or the snow wouldn't be so clear. Except maybe it would? Anyway.
Source: bonhams.com
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/ Germaine Krull, Self-Portrait with Ikarette, 1925
Source: the-night-picture-collector
The cover of Métal by Germaine Krull at Artsy.
The Getty Museum describes the work as "64 photomechanical illustrations contained in a portfolio with a black cloth binding."
Source: artsy.net
Her work was a combination of “offensive” nudes, fashion, advertising and portrait photography, social photography, and avant-garde portraits of technology.
Germaine Krull described by an unnamed author at Lost Woman Art.
Source: lostwomenart.de
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This is a cooling tower at Calder Hall, one of the first nuclear power plants to produce electricity for general consumption - although it also produced plutonium for Britain's atomic bomb programmes.
Further images from TEF Design's page on the Mission Substation at Eighth Street, San Francisco, from their lighting and design work in 2013.
The sculptures visible in the first, second, and fourth images are by Robert Boardman Howard, and together comprise Power and Light, listed at the Smithsonian's American Art Museum.
Source: tefarch.com
PG&E's substation at Mission and Eighth Streets, San Francisco, from TEF Design's portfolio of images dating from their design work on the exterior and lighting of the substation, originally built in 1948, in 2013.
Source: tefarch.com
The XP 512E was an experimental EV built by General Motors. It debuted in 1969 alongside a gas-powered version and a hybrid at the GM Technical Center in Warren, Michigan, in a display of concept vehicles called “Progress of Power.” The 512s were designed for local use or in congested areas, and their development coincided with growing public concern about the polluting emissions from petroleum-fueled cars. The 512E’s motor was powered by an 84-volt lead-acid battery, which could be charged using a household outlet in about seven hours.
Source: petersen.org
The Isle of Dogs pumping station, with its intestinal utility rendered as a temple, is another Outram landmark. Columns again contain ducting, but their capitals are inscribed with Vitruvian account of Callimachus encountering votive brackets surrounded by an Acanthus plant, while the pediment contains a winged sun from Egyptian mythology. None of this was remotely necessary—and all the better. Outdoing even Ettore Sottsass’s efforts, Outram relentlessly poured symbolic meaning into his work. Franklin writes that he “came to understand his design process as one of translation: a continual triangulation between words, images[,] and buildings.”
Anthony Paletta in his review of Geraint Franklin's book on John Outram for the Architect's Newspaper.
Source: archpaper.com