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It started as a 1992 photoshoot for Spin magazine in which husband-and-wife photography duo, Guzman, had planned to spoof the outdated notions of family life that the most famous celebrity couple of the moment had so outspokenly refuted — Courtney...
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Photographer Peter Steinhauer has made a job out of snapping all from urban architecture to natural landscapes mostly in Asia since 1993. When arriving at Hong Kong's old Kai Tak International Airport in 1994, the photographer's attention was...
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Exploring the mantra that 'everything old becomes new again', Tales of Endearment is the debut publication — a collection of photos and stories — from Belgian-born writer and photographer Natalie Joos; founder of the celebrated website of the...
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Born and raised in Brooklyn, documentary photographer Joseph Rodriguez spent the latter half of the 1980s shooting the streets and residents of Spanish Harlem; a body of work that would change the face of documentary photography, featuring the raw...
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With Palm Springs's annual Modernism Week underway, focus is again on the desert oasis of unrivalled mid-century architecture. Becoming a fashionable resort in the early part of the 1900s, the Californian desert town began taking real shape when the...
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'There are more boring yuppies and far less 'characters' around now,' Richard Sandler laments in an interview with Italian street photography collective InQuadra. 'Every third person is talking on the cellphone or hooked up to ear phones listening...
Art & Culture
'This was the rest stop that inspired the project,' explains photographer Ryann Ford of the above image from Flower Mound, Texas. 'As I researched rest stops to see what was beyond the Austin area, I was excited to find a photo of this one, and then...
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Ari Seth Cohen began photographing and documenting the style of the older generation after the inspiration behind his project — beloved grandmother Bluma — passed away over eight years ago. Cohen's first publication, Advanced Style...
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As a veteran of both the American Civil War and the Indian Wars, the great American General William Sherman knew more than most about the realities of the battlefield. “War is Hell,” the commander famously declared, and though the intervening...
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Things started to go very wrong for Detroit — formerly the most muscular of the USA's industrial powerhouses — in the 1970s. The collapse of the city's manufacturing sector led to large scale migration of Detroit's workforce and the companies...
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The hippie movement was very much of its time. With the aftershocks of the Second World War still reverberating loudly, the counter-culture movement rejected the conventions of the pre-war Western world, turning its back on the notions of capitalism...
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Iceland has long been fêted for it's beautiful scenery, but rarely has the island's diverse landscapes, rugged majesty and awe-inspiring scale been so magnificently depicted as it has in this study by Feodor Pitcairn and Ari Trausti Guðmundsson....
City Notes
Chefs Karina Mejía and Israel Montero combine the tradition of Provençal cuisine with the soul and passion of Mexico in Saint Jacques Bistrot, their new gastronomic spot in the capital city's affluent Polanco neighbourhood. Allowing diners to...
City Notes
Located next door to Hotel Wilmina, which is housed in a former Berlin-Charlottenburg women's prison, Lotta Tagesbar has opened its doors, the café cum deli and bar designed by the same team behind Wilmina and serving an exquisite menu of healthy...
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With an enviable seafront location close to Barcelona and its airport, and having undergone a recent refurbishment, AC Hotel Gavà Mar is a 69-room hotel that is ideal for the business traveller, but also a surprising destination for the discerning...
City Notes
With interiors inspired by the Art Deco of Palm Beach County in Miami, and serving delicious ice cream on a newly pedestrianised street just off Barcelona's renowned Passeig de Gràcia, Amiko is not simply a 'heladería', rather it's a sensory...
Dispatches
Minimalism and elegance, too, are gaining fast as popular choices for serene, sophisticated interiors. Simplicity, clean lines, and curative approaches to decor are all that these two styles are made of, bringing home really calm and clarity within...
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Finding the best Botox experts in Toronto can feel overwhelming, given the many options available. To focus your search, consider professionals with extensive experience and positive client reviews. A key step in identifying top specialists is...
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Wellness Trends for 2025: A series of posts designed to uncover the most progressive concepts in wellness for the year ahead. Number Eight: Restorative Home Design. In the pursuit of wellness, many people are turning their attention homeward....
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Austin’s housing market has seen a significant boom in recent years, with many homeowners looking to boost their property’s value through home improvement projects. In a city where home prices continue to rise, updating key areas of a property,...