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Photography

Interview with Allan Ellerby

by Tommy Manuel

TM: One of the major themes in your work that inter­ests me is this use of the city’s image as a sort of build­ing block.  I believe I referred to them as recon­struc­tions or assem­blages in my intro­duc­tory post to this inter­view. How would you char­ac­ter­ize the way in which you com­bine these images?
AE: Yes, […]

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Upcoming interview with artist Allan Ellerby

by Tommy Manuel

I dis­cov­ered Allan Ellerby’s work while look­ing for images to accom­pany one of my pre­vi­ous posts. I’m pleased to say he has agreed to an inter­view that will be posted here later, but first, an intro­duc­tion is in order.
Ellerby was born in Hull, York­shire in Eng­land in 1952 and became inter­ested in pho­tog­ra­phy around the age […]

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New York City’s Waterfront in Photographs on View at Museum of the City of New York

by Tommy Manuel

NEW YORK, NY.- The dra­matic trans­for­ma­tion of the New York City water­front from a hub of indus­try and com­merce to a ves­ti­gial space reclaimed for recre­ation and pub­lic use will be doc­u­mented in his­toric pho­tographs by Berenice Abbott, Andreas Feininger, and David Rob­bins, and con­tem­po­rary pho­tographs by Diane Cook and Len Jen­shel, in an exhibition […]

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unForm + unSpace: Architecture of the unSeen

by Tommy Manuel

There is a genus of form and space that goes unseen. Every­one knows were they lie, but few ven­ture into their pres­ence. They pulse beneath our feet and writhe under the hum of traf­fic, rest­less and hun­gry for some­one to con­sume. Cav­i­ties and cages echo with the sound of painful empti­ness.
These are the undead, drift­ing between the shad­ows of the living […]

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Interview with Harald Finster, Photographer

by Tommy Manuel

The work of Har­ald Fin­ster is focused yet diverse. His body of work is the kind of col­lec­tion one could spend hours upon hours gaz­ing into and still want more at the end (at least I could). I con­tacted Fin­ster a few weeks back hop­ing he would agree to an inter­view on his work, methods, […]

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Upcoming Post: Interview with Harald Finster, Photographer

by Tommy Manuel

Cot­ton gin, Swansea, SC

I’ve been drawn to aban­doned indus­trial set­tings for quite some time. As best I can assume this goes back to my early inter­ac­tion with an archi­tec­ture that you won’t find on the cover of Archi­tec­tural Record, Details, GA, not even South­ern Liv­ing (appar­ently cater­ing to a par­tic­u­lar South with a par­tic­u­lar way […]

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