The wreck of the SS City of Adelaide, a steamship that ran aground off Cockle Bay, Magnetic Island, in 1916, while being transported. Photograph by Conor Moore instagram.com/p/CGMhU4djE88/…
The wreck of the SS City of Adelaide from another perspective. Photograph by Conor Moore
The wreck of the Eduard Bohlen, a ship that ran aground on Namibia's Skeleton Coast in 1909, has—over the past century—been swallowed up by shifting sands, and now rests several hundred feet inland theatlantic.com/photo/2018/08/…
'Lady of the Lake', North Pole, Alaska. The ghostly remains of a WB-29 Superfortress submerged in a lake in the Alaskan wilderness... atlasobscura.com/places/lady-of…
A photograph by Johanna Neurath
Between catastrophe and revelation: 'Saint Clément' (1987), a photograph by Jean Baudrillard
Angas Inlet Trees, Gulf St. Vincent in Adelaide, Southern Australia
[Source: NEARMAP]
'Submerged Trailer-Home, Salton Sea' (1985) by Richard Misrach
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There are many maps I have a fable for, but this one is unquestionably the most graceful:
'A Burmese Map of the World, showing traces of Mediaeval European Map-making' (17th Century) instagram.com/p/CEyl0p0D7DJ/…
From 'The Thirty-Seven Nats — A Phase of Spirit-Worship prevailing in Burma' by William Griggs, chromo-lithographer to the king (London, 1906)
Another map I really hold dear is 'Squirrels highways' by Denis Wood.
'Nervous squirrels, afraid of an attack on the ground, use the phone and television cables as highways wherever the tree canopy’s broken' (From D. Wood's 'Everything Sings: Maps for a Narrative Atlas', 2010)
Thinking about Hong Kong...
Here's a rare colour photograph of this marvelous, infinite, impossible and yet so real city in the 1950s by Fan Ho—probably the greatest among its photographers.
Here are a few more instagram.com/p/CAzp9OsHWKQ/…
Fan Ho's portraits of Hong Kong did not only document a fascinating urban reality, but it created a way of seeing, it shaped our spatial imagination, contributing incalculably to the perception of our own cities
But, of course, he was a master of photography tout court. His geometries still teach us how to school our gaze, to decentre oneself in order to see the patterns below the surface of things
À propos ancient Martian architecture... 'Stone Architecture on Mars, Demonstrating Mars' two-thirds less gravity than Earth's' (1956) by Chesley Bonestell [Published in: Ley & Von Braun's 'The Exploration of Mars', 1956, p. 66, as plate x]
Martian architecture and costume designs from 'Aelita' (Russian: Аэли́та) aka 'Aelita: Queen of Mars' (1924) a silent science-fiction film directed by Soviet filmmaker Yakov Protazanov and based on the homonymous novel by Alexei Tolstoy
Soviet Constructivism: The model for Aelita's Martian city