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           Book : Lewitt        
 
        
          
    
        
           A book by Sam Levitt.
TEMPLATE is a book whose information emerges under programmatic erasure. Or p...        
 
       
    
       
           Book : Baldessari        
 
        
          
    
        
           A book by John Baldessari.        
 
       
    
       
           Book : Armleder        
 
        
          
    
        
           A book by John Armleder.        
 
       
    
       
           Book : Mullican        
 
        
          
    
        
           A book by Matt Mullican.        
 
       
    
       
           Book : Weiner        
 
        
          
    
        
           A book by Lawrence Weiner.        
 
       
    
       
           Book : Cattelan        
 
        
          
    
        
           A book by Maurizio Cattelan.        
 
       
    
       
           Book : Brannon        
 
        
          
    
        
           A book by Matthew Brannon.        
 
       
    
       
           American Food        
 
        
          
    
        
           Davide Luciano is a New York based conceptual food and beverage photographer and motion artist. His ...        
 
       
    
       
           Font design for a video game        
 
        
          
    
       
           Books of Memory: Gianpaolo Pagni        
 
        
          
    
        
           Gianpaolo Pagni creates unique, printed, painted or stamped books. His work focuses around memory an...        
 
       
    
       
           Franz De Lacroix        
 
        
          
    
        
           Model: Franz De Lacroix / Average is Boring
Photographer: Paulina Wyszynska        
 
       
    
       
           Glyph        
 
        
          
    
        
           Glyph: from Greek γλυφή, "carving," and γλύφειν, "to hollow out, engrave, carve". It is ...        
 
       
    
       
           Struth: Nature & Politics        
 
        
          
    
        
           Thomas Struth´s work shows us highly complex equipment, structures and constructions. His pictures ...        
 
       
    
       
           Obsolete Distinction        
 
        
          
    
        
           In contemporary society, the digital world pervades the physical to such an extent that any distinct...        
 
       
    
       
           L’ITALIA CI GUARDIA        
 
        
          
    
        
           On the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the birth of the Italian Republic, 40 masters of photogra...        
 
       
    
       
           Design & Politics        
 
        
          
    
        
           Photo series "design and politics" by Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, born in 1982 i...        
 
       
    
       
           Julius Shulman: Visual Drama        
 
        
          
    
        
           "Julius had an eye for visual drama. With modernist buildings, he loved capturing the strong lines s...        
 
       
    
       
           72 dpi        
 
        
          
    
        
           Images on the Internet are changing our lives. While images were once only reserved for a certain fe...        
 
       
    
       
           Memories of Ruins: Rebecca Bathory        
 
        
          
    
        
           Finding beauty in darkness, poetry and meaning in the forgotten and surreal, imaginary worlds amongs...        
 
       
    
       
           Toshio Onda        
 
        
          
    
        
           Japanese Fashion photographer Toshio Onda studied at the University of West England. He lives in Par...        
 
       
    
       
           Rayan Ayash        
 
        
          
    
        
           Rayan Ayash is a Fashion Photographer based in New York & Paris.        
 
       
    
       
           Áron Jancsó        
 
        
          
    
        
           “I’m a type addict. Building from scratch is how I like to work, sometimes even designing every ...        
 
       
    
       
           Palmyra, End of March, 2016        
 
        
          
    
        
           Palmyra. City of Mesopotamia, city of the Phoenicians, of the Assyrians, the Greeks, the Persians, a...        
 
       
    
       
           The end of history - La fin de l´histoire        
 
        
          
    
        
           "Belief in progress is irresistible. In flattering the eye it blinds us. Standing in the middle of t...        
 
       
    
       
           Blast        
 
        
          
    
        
           Naoya Hatakeyama was born in 1958 in Iwate Prefecture, Japan. Hatakeyama, a student of Kiyoji Otsuji...        
 
       
    
       
           Man. Kiki. Lee.        
 
        
          
    
        
           The muses of Emmanuel Radnitzky (Man Ray)
"All I need is an onion, a bit of bread, and a bottle of ...        
 
       
    
       
           Conformity        
 
        
          
    
        
           “Modern man has become a cog in a very complex society. We live in a society that praises individu...        
 
       
    
       
           Uncanny Bodies        
 
        
          
    
        
           There is a space of imagination stretching between brain, lens and body: Photography by Ariana Molly...        
 
       
    
       
           Trees in Winter        
 
        
          
    
        
           A series utilizing random patterns in nature to reveal mathematical beauty, by Ansen Seale.        
 
       
    
       
           Observatoires        
 
        
          
    
        
           Noémie Goudal is a French artist who graduated from the Royal College of Art in 2010 with an MA in ...        
 
       
    
       
           Nauru        
 
        
          
    
        
           Nauru was first inhabited at least 3,000 years ago. Inhabitants caught ibija fish, acclimatised them...        
 
       
    
       
           SCHNAPPVIECHER        
 
        
          
    
        
           The Krampus in Salzburg, Austria was the first beast Charles Fréger  encountered during his two-yea...        
 
       
    
       
           The contemporary condition        
 
        
          
    
        
           Fred Guillaud (France, 1973) is photographer, architect and teacher. He lives and works  in Barcelon...        
 
       
    
       
           Orange mecanique        
 
        
          
    
        
           Philippe Jarrigeon, photographer and publisher, was born in 1982 in France. He graduated from ECAL  ...        
 
       
    
       
           "I’m an outsider"        
 
        
          
    
        
           Born in New York City in 1928, William Klein studied sociology while enrolled at City College of New...        
 
       
    
       
           Spacecraft        
 
        
          
    
        
           Raised in Maryland, Nicholas Alan Cope moved to Los Angeles in 2004 and attended Art Center College ...        
 
       
    
       
           Josef Sudek        
 
        
          
    
        
           Josef Sudek (b. March 17, 1896, Kolin, Bohemia – d. September 15, 1976) was a Czech photographer, ...        
 
       
    
       
           Mirrors        
 
        
          
    
        
           Jeannette Montgomery Barron was born in 1956 in Atlanta and studied at the International Center of P...        
 
       
    
       
           Charles Negre        
 
        
          
    
        
           Charles Negre is an independent studio photographer living and working in Paris.        
 
       
    
       
           constructing meaning in 3 steps        
 
        
          
    
        
           Frank Hülsbömer was born 1968 in Münster/Germany.        
 
       
    
       
           Iraq        
 
        
          
    
        
           Photojournalist Luke Wolagiewicz lives in London. Over the last 15 years he has worked across the Mi...        
 
       
    
       
           The 2015 best of penccil        
 
        
          
    
        
           This was an extraordinary year. The world went through a series of shocks and shake-ups, and in betw...        
 
       
    
       
           The Other Side        
 
        
          
    
        
           There's always another side, other stories and new faces behind the glamorous curtains of the fashio...        
 
       
    
       
           Spatial Objects        
 
        
          
    
        
           Spatial Objects is the result of Dan Holdsworth’s ongoing enquiry into contemporary photographic p...        
 
       
    
       
           Hello Winter        
 
        
          
    
        
           Hello winter . A small selection of landscape photography made in the Atlantic islands of Azores dur...        
 
       
    
       
           Ankara: From pioneering modernism to revivalist mimicry        
 
        
          
    
        
           Ankara: Öncü modernizmden öykünmeci mimesise
Murat Germen is an artist using photography as an ...        
 
       
    
       
           UN_NATURAL BESTIARY        
 
        
          
    
        
           In this work Andrea Alessio collects, as in an ancient bestiary, a series of animal images. The fore...        
 
       
    
       
           ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN        
 
        
          
    
        
           I would like to introduce this new series of photos by Andrea Alessio by appealing to an axiom that ...        
 
       
    
       
           Behind the walls        
 
        
          
    
        
           Paolo Ventura was born in Milan in 1968. His work has been exhibited in museums and private gallerie...        
 
       
    
       
           Lo Zuavo Scomparso        
 
        
          
    
        
           Paolo Ventura was born in Milan in 1968. His work has been exhibited in museums and private gallerie...        
 
       
    
       
           Technological Exaptation        
 
        
          
    
        
           Images by photographer and set designer Maxime Guyon, currently living and working between Lyon (Fra...        
 
       
    
       
           Parisian Still Lifes        
 
        
          
    
        
           Photographer Romain Bernardie James, born 1980, lives and works in Paris.        
 
       
    
       
           Lucha Libre        
 
        
          
    
        
           A small set of ´Lucha Libre´-posters found by Dutch graphic designer Hans Gremmen at a printer in ...        
 
       
    
       
           Versuchsaufbau A        
 
        
          
    
        
           Die Grundidee des Versuchsaufbaus–A beruht auf dem System der astronomischen Sonnenuhr. Sonnenuhre...        
 
       
    
       
           Volkswagen Jetta        
 
        
          
    
        
           Herla King,2010-2012. Mirror and colored vinyls & spray-paint on 1984 Volkswagen Jetta. Etienne Bard...        
 
       
    
       
           Inside is Out - Outside is In        
 
        
          
    
        
           photography by Thomas Skou, Copenhagen.        
 
       
    
       
           Aeronauts        
 
        
          
    
        
           Photographer Benedict Redgrove was born in Woodley near Reading, England. He studied at Berkshire Co...        
 
       
    
       
           Ramona Rosales Portraits        
 
        
          
    
        
           Photographer Ramona Rosales lives and works in Los Angeles.        
 
       
    
       
           Laucke Siebein, Amsterdam and Berlin        
 
        
          
    
        
           Studio Laucke Siebein is a design studio based in Amsterdam and Berlin. Dirk Laucke (1965) – born ...        
 
       
    
       
           Memory & Form        
 
        
          
    
        
           Paul is an Australian-Taiwanese photographer living and working in New York. He studied in Milano an...        
 
       
    
       
           Low Tech        
 
        
          
    
        
           Kevin Twomey´s first study of light came from studying theatrical lighting where he learned the abi...        
 
       
    
       
           White Rooms        
 
        
          
    
        
           Photographer Wouter Hogendorp from Den Haag documents the beauty of architectural details: light, th...        
 
       
    
       
           Dominik Tarabanski        
 
        
          
    
        
           Photographer Dominik Tarabanski was born in Poland. He lives and works in NYC.        
 
       
    
       
           New York by Louis Faurer        
 
        
          
    
        
           Louis Faurer (1916 –  2001) was an American fashion and street photographer. The significance of h...        
 
       
    
       
           The Long River        
 
        
          
    
        
           Nadav Kander came to China several times in 2005 to 2007, visited 186 cities and traveled along the ...        
 
       
    
       
           Things As They Are        
 
        
          
    
        
           Erin O´Keefe is a visual artist and architect based in New York City and New Brunswick, Canada. She...        
 
       
    
       
           It Must Be Beautiful        
 
        
          
    
        
           Bus stop embellishments in Belarus.
Photographer Alexandra Soldatova was born in 1983. She graduated...        
 
       
    
       
           The Einstein Intersection        
 
        
          
    
        
           A collection of classic Science Ficion book covers.        
 
       
    
       
           Seventies Portraits        
 
        
          
    
        
           Beautiful black and white portraits from the seventies.        
 
       
    
       
           Time Bandits        
 
        
          
    
        
           Visual communication artist Sabine Marx-Nieder is based in Munich, Germany.        
 
       
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 Night Stories        
 
        
  
 (C) Mario Gagliardi 2014        
      
        
       
 
 Choreography of pictorial fetishes        
 
        
  
 Afterword by WM Hunt
These are photographs.
These exist uniquely as photographs. The artist, Manuel ...        
      
        
       
 
 Bus station        
 
        
  
 Photos captured as a part of incomplete project looking to be completed.        
      
        
       
 
 Twenty Twentyone        
 
        
  
 Impressions from Vienna in the latter half of 2021. Images by Mario Gagliardi.        
      
        
       
 
 Parallel Universe        
 
        
  
 Sometimes, you can catch one of these scenes when things seem less real, as if another version of re...        
      
        
       
 
 Surface N° 2        
 
        
  
 Arctic Paper presents Surface N° 2 – a second edition featuring a specially curated selection of ...        
      
        
       
 
 Generative Alphabet        
 
        
  
 Numbers and Letterforms created by an algorithm. © Mario Gagliardi Design 2019.        
      
        
       
 
 Paris        
 
        
  
 Paris 2019. (C) Mario Gagliardi        
      
        
       
 
 Street Life        
 
        
  
 Photographic impressions in the streets of Tokyo and Kyoto. (C) Mario Gagliardi        
      
        
       
 
 Energy        
 
        
  
 Every photo has an energy, a direction, and a story. I do not own this story.        
      
        
       
 
 Cognition        
 
        
  
 This experiment looks at the process of human cognition. Letters get progressively filled with color...        
      
        
       
 
 Bones, Stones, Sticks, & Stones        
 
        
  
 Digital photography and manipulation on paper.        
      
        
       
 
 MG Font        
 
        
  
 An extravagant yet versatile and surprisingly readable font for headlines and quotes.
(C) Mario Gagl...        
      
        
       
 
 Typography        
 
        
  
 Collection of beautiful typography and graphic design.        
      
        
       
 
 Dawson        
 
        
  
 Yukon Territory, Canada        
      
        
       
 
 Architecture        
 
        
  
 Designed and restored by Ted Wells. Happy with my historic house: 1960, originally designed by Moshe...        
      
        
       
 
 Architecture        
 
        
  
 Designed by Ted Wells. Architecture. Corten steel and glass.        
      
        
       
 
 Architecture        
 
        
  
 Designed by Ted Wells. Great ocean and canyon views. Glass, stone, and steel.        
      
        
       
 
 Writing & Design        
 
        
  
 Birdee, Tweet! Writer and Illustrator.        
      
        
       
 
 Writing & Design        
 
        
  
 Bohemian Crossroads: Art & Culture Collide Then Subside. Writer and Designer.        
      
        
       
 
 Writing & Design        
 
        
  
 Bohemian Highways: Abide Then Divide Along the California Coast. Writer and Designer.        
      
        
       
 
 Writing & Design        
 
        
  
 Horizon Homes: Living a Concrete Dream. Writer and Designer, Ted Wells.        
      
        
       
 
 Writing & Design        
 
        
  
 Artists Abroad: A Woman´s Journey to Discover the Artists. Writer and Illustrator.        
      
        
       
 
 Writing & Exhibition        
 
        
  
 Art That Matters. Writer and Designer.        
      
        
       
 
 Design        
 
        
  
 Auguste Rodin Eye Chart. Poster. Letterpress.        
      
        
       
 
 Writing & Design        
 
        
  
 Casting Shadows, Auguste Rodin. Writer and Designer.        
      
        
       
 
 Writing & Design        
 
        
  
 Nofearatutu. Writer and Illustrator, Ted Wells.        
      
        
       
 
 Writing & Design        
 
        
  
 Bohemian Bridges: California as a Superstructure for Social and Cultural Change. Writer and Designer...        
      
        
       
 
 Writing & Design        
 
        
  
 I´m a Flower Child. Writer and Illustrator.        
      
        
       
 
 Writing & Design        
 
        
  
 SQT..or Not. Book. Writer and Illustrator, Ted Wells.        
      
        
       
 
 Hoi An        
 
        
  
 Ancient Town in Vietnam and South-East Asian trading port dating from the 15th to the 19th century
2...        
      
        
       
 
 worlds of planet earth        
 
        
  
 A set of photos from different places on Earth.
2018        
      
        
       
 
 Thames & Hudson        
 
        
  
 As conventional book sales decrease, book publishers have to come up with innovative strategies for ...        
      
        
       
 
 Cellular Letters        
 
        
  
 An algorithm applies regular growth patterns to a basic font, thereby creating a great range of diff...        
      
        
       
 
 Painted by Time        
 
        
  
 Inricate patterns created by lichens, made over time around the tiny cracks of ceramic tiles. (C) Ma...        
      
        
       
 
 penccil: This was 2017        
 
        
  
 The penccil year in review is a project selection for 2017, this year curated by Mario Gagliardi. Se...        
      
        
       
 
 Wayne Sorce:  Urban Color        
 
        
  
 "Wayne Sorce: Urban Color" is on view from October 21st through November 30th at Joseph Bellows Gall...        
      
        
       
 
 Attraction - Repulsion        
 
        
  
 An experiment in typographic assemblage. An algorithm creates individual entities (shown as black do...        
      
        
       
 
 TYPOGRAPHY        
 
        
  
 RESEARCH        
      
        
       
 
 The wall        
 
        
  
 photography and theoretical  project about the The seperation wall between Israel and the west bank        
      
        
       
 
 Swiernalis        
 
        
  
 Polish alternative musician Swiernalis        
      
        
       
 
 Book : Monk        
 
        
  
 A book by Jonathan Monk.        
      
        
       
 
      
      
    
      
      
        Inspiration exists, but it has to find you working.
— Pablo Picasso
        
       
     
       
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