likeafieldmouse:

Karen Knorr - India Song (2008-12)

1. Becoming Arihanta (Sahastrabahu Temple, Gwalior)

2. Flight to Freedom (Juna Mahal, Dungarpur)

3. The Palaiyakkarars (Hazarama Temple, Hampi)

4. The Witness (Humayun’s Tomb, Delhi)

5. A Place like Amravati (Udaipur City Palace, Udaipur)

6. The Gatekeeper (Samode Palace, Samode)

7. The Avatars of Devi (Samode Palace, Samode)

8. The Conqueror of the World (Podar Haveli, Nawalgarh)

9. The Return of the Hunter (Jaipur Palace, Jaipur)

10. The Messenger (Purana Qila, Delhi)

Since 2008 her work has taken a new turn and focused its gaze on the upper caste culture of the Rajput in India and its relationship to the “other” through the use of photography, video and performance. The photographic series considers men’s space (mardana) and women’s space (zanana) in Mughal and Rajput palace architecture, havelis and mausoleums through large format digital photography.

Karen Knorr celebrates the rich visual culture, the foundation myths and stories of northern India, focusing on Rajasthan and using sacred and secular sites to consider caste, femininity and its relationship to the animal world. Interiors are painstakingly photographed with a large format Sinar P3 analogue camera and scanned to very high resolution. Live animals are inserted into the architectural sites, fusing high resolution digital with analogue photography. Animals photographed in sanctuaries, zoos and cities inhabit palaces, mausoleums , temples and holy sites, interrogating Indian cultural heritage and rigid hierarchies. Cranes, zebus, langurs, tigers and elephants mutate from princely pets to avatars of past feminine historic characters, blurring boundaries between reality and illusion and reinventing the Panchatantra for the 21st century.

blue-voids:

Laura McPhee - The Home and the World
Architecture of Kolkata, India

amrutabuge:

Miniature Lattice Work - Poplar Wood
3D Foundation, Spring 2013.

3inches:

Balthazar Korab, Great Lakes Regional Headquarters of the Reynolds Metals Company, 1959

a-mon-seul-desir:

Gaudí’s “Art Nouveau” Casa Mila, 1910.

coconutsandcuttlefish:

The roof of the Casa Milà, also known as La Pedrera, designed by Gaudí. Barcelona, Spain.

clickformoresoftgrunge:

untitled by duncluk  on Flickr.

Mediterranée de Henriette Grindat et Mimica Cranaki, La Guilde du livre, Lausanne, 1957.

(Source: endilletante)