real life is elsewhere: 12/30/12

jules gervais-courtellemont

girl with a fan, 1924.

a man plays his guitar for a young girl in granada, spain, march 1929.

two moorish women walk in an alleyway, algiers, algeria, 1923.

fresh mangosteen, bangkok, siam, ca. 1926.

durmiendo la siesta em sevilla

the pitcher maid, pont-l'abbe, brittany, france, ca. 1927.

concarneau (finistère), ca. 1911.

a woman carries a wicker basket wearing a traditional bonnet, provins, france, ca. 1930.

devastated landscape at the french lines, 1917.

ouled nail dancers, bou saada, algeria 1909-11.

dancers in pink with flowers, ca. 1910.

lecture près d’un puits à alger, algérie, 1909.

tunisienne au bonnet pointu.

young woman weaving a carpet, algeria, 1909.

constantinople le bosphore (turquie) ca. 1908.

city steps, algiers, algeria, ca. 1911.

wall detail, angkor thom, cambodia, 1926

toledo hacia, 1910.

all photographs by jules gervais-courtellemont.

autochrome is just. so. divine.

soviet modernism 1955-1991: unknown stories

residential building on minskaya street, 1980s, bobruisk, belarus.

holiday home for writers, 1965-69, sevan lake, armenia.

ministry of highways, 1974, tbilisi, georgia.

circus, 1976, tashkent, uzbekistan.

park of memory (crematorium), 1968–1980, kiev, ukraine.

bazar, 1983, baku, azerbaijan.

lenin square, 1966–1972, tashkent, uzbekistan.

lenin museum (now historical museum), 1984, bishkek, kyrgystan.

lenin palace, 1970, almaty, kazakhstan.

state library named after karl marx, 1969-1975, ashgabat, turkmenistan.

central aquatic sports center (now laguna vere), 1978, tbilisi, georgia.

soviet modernism 1955 - 1991: unknown stories explores the architecture of the non-russian soviet republics completed between the late 1950s & the end of the USSR in 1991.

while constructivism & stalinist architecture have largely been included in western architecture history, the soviet modern architecture of the second half of the 20th century have remained practically unknown to date.

working in collaboration with local experts & architects, a research group at the architekturzentrum wien has pursued the specialities in the architecture of the period & its 'stories'. interviews conducted with eyewitnesses of the time have been documented in writing.

time is running out as the poor construction techniques of these rapidly aging buildings is threatening their existence.

the exhibition runs through 25 february, 2013 at the architekturzentrum wien - old hall & is curated by katharina ritter, ekaterina shapiro-obermair & alexandra wachter.

raf simons - spring/summer 2013

andrew westermann, matthieu gregoire & anne-catherine lacroix photographed & directed by pierre debusschere & styled by robbie spencer for raf simons, spring/summer 2013.