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We work together

Old photographs of lumberjacks posing in front of their cut down giant redwood trees during the timber-rush of the mid 19th century in Yosemite National Park and Humboldt County, California Continue reading →

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We sit infront of the fire

Ancient City of Petra, Jordan by Candlelight, photographed by Andrew Waddington   .
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We balance

Beautiful black and white photograph of the John Hancock Building during construction, designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) Chicago, IL, in 1970 / captured by famous modernist architecture photographer Continue reading →

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We left the door open

Photograph of the giant sliding hangar gates of Tempelhof Airport in Berlin, location of the Berlin Airlift of June 1948 / unknown photographer     .
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We make it work

Fascinating monochrome black and white photograph taking during the construction of the Hoover Dam turbine 1931-1936, commissioned  by President Franklin D. Roosevelt at the height of the Great Depression in Continue reading →

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We need to get into shape

‘al fared palace’ by Mohammed Assiri /// Nabataean city, Saudi Arabia Rock hewn Qasr al-Farid tomb at Nabataean city. On an arid plain in northern Saudi Arabia, the forlorn figure Continue reading →

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We are back on the road

Vintage photograph of a large suspension bridge with one side open for a large stream of pedestrians crossing the bridge in Michigan, USA, 1973 / unknown photographer    
Orava Castle, Slovakia

We climb mountains

Orava Castle, Slovakia / photographed by Grzegorz Formicki
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We are making our way

Photograph of a narrow canyon leading to the mystical Rose-Red City of Petra in Jordan / unknown photographer
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We need new stuff

The Smithsonian Institution houses and maintains the third largest bird collection in the world with over 640,000 specimens. / photographed by Chip Clark, found at tanta tralha
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We are under de-construction

Photograph of the breathtaking USS Macon (ZRS-5) , an airship built and operated by the United States Navy for scouting / unknown photographer
The Graham Foundation is pleased to present The Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922-32, an exhibition documenting the work of modernist architects in the Soviet Union in the years following the 1917 revolution and the period of instability during the subsequent civil war. In little more than a decade, some of the most radical buildings of the twentieth century were completed by a small group of architects who developed a new architectural language in support of new social goals of communal life. Rarely published and virtually inaccessible until the collapse of the former Soviet Union, these important buildings have remained unknown and unappreciated. The buildings featured in the exhibition are located in a wide territory spanning the former Soviet Union that includes Azerbaijan, Ukraine, Georgia, and Russia, and are drawn from an archive of approximately 15,000 photographs taken by British photographer Richard Pare during extensive visits that began in 1992. Pare’s photographs offer the first contemporary documentation of these buildings, some still in use, others abandoned and decayed, and many under the threat of demolition. Pare received two grants from the Graham Foundation in support of The Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922-32. Richard Pare was born in England in 1948 and studied photography and graphic design in Winchester and at Ravensbourne College of Art before moving to the United States in 1971. Pare graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1973. He was curator of the Seagram photography collection from 1974 until 1985 and was the founding curator for the photography collection of the Canadian Centre for Architecture from its inception in 1974 until he became a consultant to the collection in 1989—a role he continues to fulfill. His works have been exhibited widely and he is represented in many of the major public collections of photography. His numerous seminal exhibitions and publications include Court House: A Photographic Document (1978), Photography and Architecture: 1839-1939 (1982), and Tadao Ando: The Colors of Light (1996), which received the AIA monograph award. Recent books include The Lost Vanguard: Architecture of the Russian Avant-garde, 1922-1932, published in 2007, and Building the Revolution, published in 2011. Pare is presently completing a new series of images on the works of Le Corbusier for the Pushkin Museum, Moscow, the first exhibition on the architect in Russia. The Lost Vanguard exhibition originated at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, organized by Barry Bergdoll, with guest curator Jean-Louis Cohen. Selections from this body of work were first exhibited at the Ruina, an annex of the Shchusev State Museum of Architecture (MUAR) in Moscow. At the State Museum of Contemporary Art (SMCA) in Thessaloniki, Greece the photographs were presented with works from the George Costakis collection and were later included in another series of exhibitions, Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935, organized by MaryAnne Stevens at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. Building the Revolution traveled to La Caixa Forum in Madrid and Barcelona, the Royal Academy, and most recently to the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin. The exhibition in Chicago will be the first presentation of the work in the United States outside of New York. RELATED PUBLICATION The Lost Vanguard: Russian Modernist Architecture, 1922-1932 A fully illustrated book published by The Monacelli Press includes contributions by Phyllis Lambert, Jean-Louis Cohen, and Richard Pare. The publication will be available for purchase in the Graham Foundation bookshop throughout the course of the exhibition

We are a bit lost

from the exhibition “The Lost Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922-33″ photographs by Richard Pare
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We take a trip

From the Mid-Week Pictorial, this experimental “Zeppelin on wheels” (or Schienenzeppelin) arrived at a station in Hanover, Germany. It went into service in 1931 and that June set a railway Continue reading →

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We are going out

We are going out
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Cuddling Together

Cuddling Together

Jerusalem, by Daniel Giebeler

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