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New Perspectives on Beauty from Eric Holubow

by Janine Boylan on October 15, 2012

Abandoned space at Washburne Trade School in Chicago, Illinois, showing new perspectives on beauty

Abandoned space at Washburne Trade School in Chicago, Illinois
© Eric Holubow

Can There Be Beauty in Decay?

Eric Holubow, urban exploration photographer, gave me new perspectives on beauty. He creates haunting views into life’s changes through snapshots of glorious buildings as they fall into disrepair.

Abandoned Church

Gary, Indiana’s City Methodist Church once held nearly 3,000 members. Now its rainbow-colored windows have made way for exploring vines. Its floors beckon weeds, and its roof welcomes trees. Yet Holubow shows that it is still a place for inspiration.

Ruins of Holy Trinity Church in Gary, Indiana, showing new perspectives on beauty

Ruins of the Holy Trinity Church in Gary, Indiana
© Eric Holubow  Read more...

 

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Imaginative Pictures Play with Your Senses

by Sheron Long on October 4, 2012

Portraits by photographer Giuseppe Mastromatteo showing imaginative pictures that play with your senses

© Giuseppe Mastromatteo with appreciation to
the photographer’s representatives at the Emmanuel Fremin Gallery, New York

How Fast Did You Say “Oh, I See”?

It took me a minute to see how Giuseppe Mastromatteo’s imagination had played with my senses and caused a double-take in my perceptions. These imaginative pictures are surreal photographs, part of  his series “Indepensense.” In the photographer’s words, the series is “about senses and the way we can use them.”

I hope Mastromatteo was talking about the viewer’s senses as well. As I studied these photographs, I was first appreciative of the visual surprise, the feeling I always have when I experience someone else’s creative ideas. “How clever,” I thought, “that our senses could be represented in these illusory ways.”  Read more...

 

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