Frank Hülsbömer: The Fiction Of Science

Using photography as his medium, artist Frank Hülsbömer documents his love affair with objects. The upshot, beautifully-composed, abstract images of various items like colored paper and wire, star in his forthcoming book, The Fiction of Science, along with a detailed explanation of the Berlin-based photographer's both scientific and artistic approach to capturing each article. A former contributor to Wallpaper Magazine, Hülsbömer made a name for …

Paolo Ventura: Winter Stories

by Anna Carnick Photographer Paolo Ventura’s new book "Winter Stories" follows an old circus performer’s visions as he looks back on his life during his final moments. Wonderfully, Ventura built the protagonist’s haunting and melancholy world with his own bare hands, constructing incredibly detailed miniature sets from props he collected at flea markets, and then photographed them to appear life-size. The result is a dark …

1000º C: Deyrolle

by Zeva Bellel In the wee morning hours of 1 February 2008, a four-alarm fire ravaged 1000º C: Deyrolle documents the aftermath with hauntingly beautiful images of the shop. “The scene had a Pompeii feeling to it, almost like an archeological dig,†recalls Bochet of the charred and ransacked insides of the nearly two-hundred-year-old boutique. Deyrolle’s owner Louis Albert de Broglie gave Bochet, a close …