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“Immediately after the Second World War, a series of apartment complexes sprouted across Paris and the surrounding suburbs in response to the housing crisis. [...] In his series Souvenir d’un Futur, Kronental documented the living quarters, as well as the residents of each complex. […] The result is a spellbinding series of large-format film photographs that showcase a now-dated vision of the future.” (Gestalten)

More works by Kronental in this week’s edition of As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, my newsletter on modern and contemporary art.

“Immediately after the Second World War, a series of apartment complexes sprouted across Paris and the surrounding suburbs in response to the housing crisis. [...] In his series Souvenir d’un Futur, Kronental documented the living quarters, as well as the residents of each complex. […] The result is a spellbinding series of large-format film photographs that showcase a now-dated vision of the future.” (Gestalten)

More works by Kronental in this week’s edition of As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, my newsletter on modern and contemporary art.

“Completed in the year 1972, Kisho Kurokawa’s Nakagin Capsule Tower is one of the few visionary proposals realized by an avant-garde architectural movement called Metabolism. […] More importantly, it is a reminder of a future that was never realized in society at large and exists as an architectural anachronism within the city.” (Kehrer Verlag)

“In my project, I employed photography to capture the state of these capsules as a response to their potential [disappearance].” (Noritaka Minami)

More works by Minami in this week’s edition of As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, my newsletter on modern and contemporary art.