Alphavilles ?

In Brazil, a developer called Albuquerque has built since 1974 a serious number of «Alphavilles» : they are typical urban enclaves, overprotected, in the suburb of big metropolis. The name is directly inspired from the Jean Luc Godard’s movie Alphaville

America by Car

Enduring icons of American culture, the car and the highway remain vital as auguries of adventure and discovery, and a means by which to take in the country’s vast scale. Lee Friedlander is the first photographer to make the car

Florence

Gerhard Richter produced his Firenze series in spring 2000. It consists of a total of 103 photographs that have been painted over by the artist. One hundred of those works are reproduced in this volume. Most of the works are

Parse

For this book, John Baldessari has developed a sequence of incomplete, cut-out, and mysterious images, which leads to a construction of meanings and stories. We make our way through pages of fragments from B-movie stills—grouped by the artist into compelling

A World Without Words

Images originally compiled by Jasper Morrison for a slide show Source : Jasper Morrison, A World Without Words, Zurich, Lars Müller Publishers, 2012

La Métropole Imaginaire

Source : Bruno Fortier, La Métropole Imaginaire, un atlas de Paris, Paris, Mardaga, 1989