{"id":499,"date":"2026-04-03T05:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chabrok.com\/?p=499"},"modified":"2026-04-03T05:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T05:35:00","slug":"urban-architecture-the-beauty-of-mapping-xxviii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chabrok.com\/?p=499","title":{"rendered":"Urban Architecture: The Beauty of Mapping XXVIII"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\t\t\t\tRichard Shulman<\/span><\/p>\n

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Architect: Oscar Niemeyer: Los Angeles, 1963.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I loved three paintings in my life: I admired many more paintings: The three paintings I loved subliminally framed my photographic ideas – true fiction followed: Arnold B\u00f6cklin’s first island of the dead <\/em> It told my eyes (along with two other paintings\/artists) what my photo needed to look like. The three pictures were like my first understanding that life begins with a fetus. Three paintings became my DNA before I realized what I wanted from the life of a photographer and not just from photography. A photographer’s life was about how and where I made pictures: where and why I traveled: the collective immersion of place and time: the pragmatism and adventurism I wanted found on celluloid: the invention that gave character to what the camera saw.<\/p>\n

Every day became a s\u00e9ance-like dream sequence: I imagined traveling through the lost Apacheria of the Apache Indians: I imagined standing upright to the sounds of Tate\/Manson’s Los Angeles nightmare: I imagined the sight of Vesuvius’s lava flows at Pompeii for the first time: Well, if you allow yourself to imagine somewhere before you come here or there – reality raises its beautiful head. A dangerous and fun experience becomes a visual comfort.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Architect: Frank Lloyd Wright: Carmel, California.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The visual comfort that I first recognized in B\u00f6cklin’s work. island of the dead <\/em>That was the necessary image technique that I wanted to aim for: I tried to blend technology and journey: it would be like a diary of a monarch butterfly’s migration: if you only admire the wings in motion, you can write a million words about the urgency of flight, the joy at the destination and the experience of capture: I wanted to take part in the flight: I wanted to be part of the phenomenon called kaleidoscope, to be part of the fluttering of wings.<\/p>\n

For decades, I didn’t just click the shutter on my camera. -I was somewhere> That somewhere always reminded me of B\u00f6cklin’s “…dead”. Romance and travel were certainly more important than capture – until the opposite became the greater truth.<\/p>\n

Every home I saw through its wide and narrow openings became my own personal romance novel. Stories are not just about captured moments, they are about where we have been.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Architect: Charles Gwathmey: Malibu, California.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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In my heart is a place where I am never alone: That is why these three paintings are with me: There is no fabrication in this set of concepts: comparable to Melville’s Ahab or Albrecht D\u00fcrer’s whale: there is a quest for reality: there is no time to die in the imagination: a quest to capture the experience of a lifetime in flight: a minute in the torrent of Celtic mythology: listen to Homer’s joyful siren: Standing toe-to-toe with Rabelais’ Gargantua: While I am alone in my mind with B\u00f6cklin’s “…Dead,” my reality is seen as a framework of designs by Oscar Niemeyer, Frank Lloyd Wright, Ricardo Bofill, and Philip Johnson, and over 100,000 actual moments. I stand across a thousand cities, just listening to the conversations of the ghosts who have been here.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Architect: Ricardo Bofill: Barcelona, \u200b\u200bSpain.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n

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\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRichard Shulman is a photographer and author. His books include Portraits of the New Architecture and Oxymoron & Pleonasmus. He lives in New York City.<\/em>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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#Urban #Architecture #Beauty #Mapping #XXVIII<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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