Photographer Osamu Hatachi at Yungang Grottoes, one of the most famous ancient Buddhist sculptural sites in China, 1930-40s. Acording to latest statistics, he took over 10,000 photographs of Yungang from 1938 to 1944.
Collection of Kyoto University.

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Photographer Osamu Hatachi at Yungang Grottoes, one of the most famous ancient Buddhist sculptural sites in China, 1930-40s. Acording to latest statistics, he took over 10,000 photographs of Yungang from 1938 to 1944.
Collection of Kyoto University.
A mural of a forest in the South Bronx, New York. Captured by Thomas Hoepker, 1983
Mural Art by Alan Sonfist, 1978. The building still exists, however the mural is no longer there
A few other photos from the Hiroshima visit of an hibakujumoku, survivor tree at the Shukkeien Garden. This Hiroshima tourism website has an index and map of all the surviving trees.
On a recent trip to Hiroshima, I got fascinated by Alice Garden, a weird, eccentric and remarkably intact Post-Modernist public plaza and event space that has somehow survived more than 30 years. AFAIK, it was originally created when PARCO built their new department store in 1994. A major modernist sculpture by artist/musician Suzuki Takashi sits on an artist-designed plinth that's also used as an event stage.
Curiouser and Curiouser: Alice Garden in Hiroshima [greg.org] 📷: 2026 photo from the bleachers at Alice Garden, Hiroshima; 2022 Streetview screenshot of the Alice Garden bike parking entrance structure; Suzuki Takashi, Linear Cycle, 1994 as originally installed at Alice Garden, image courtesy the artist
On my 2017 visit to Hiroshima, I found myself at the same plaza and took a sequence of photos of a man in a white outfit traversing it?!
I didn't do a deep dive like Greg does, chalking it up as a Horton Plaza Mall era architectural folly.
In the Sand Mountain, Sand Mountain, Alabama, 1976
Rosalind Fox Solomon
Center for Creative Photography (University of Arizona) is a great resource with tens of thousands of photos online by over 750 artists. The UI to search by artist is a bit convoluted, so I had the beepboop make a simple artist index. (note, this index is mobile friendly, but the image database is not).
Robert Mapplethorpe: Francesco Clemente, 1985 Robert Rauschenberg, 1983
Cy Twombly Anabasis (Bronze), Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2013
A 1963 photo by Tatiana Franchetti Twombly of a sand castle built by her husband Cy and her son Alessandro, who would later tell his daughter Maia that the castle was his first sculpture. Maia has published a book with 100 of the thousands of photos her grandmother took. Watch this space.
Twombly & Twombly by Twombly [greg.org]
Tatia Franchetti Twombly, circa 1950s-60s
unknown, City Hall interior, San Francisco, 1906
unknown, Carleton E. Watkins, with cane, during aftermath of earthquake, San Francisco, 1906
This is an incredible photo - out of focus, but it captures Watkins’ gait and the sense of urgency of the moment, like no formal portrait could. The box the man is carrying probably has a small number of Watkins’ negatives or prints. This photograph, taken on the street with multiple layers of action, represents the next 100 years of photography. The subject, the elderly pioneer of 19th century American photography, staggers away from the history he created, his archives on fire.
I was curious about the location - what street is this, what building is that on fire in the background? My guess as a long-time resident is the large street in the background is Market and that they are heading south of Market. But the opposite could be true. I emailed Steve Heselton of carletonwatkins.org. He points out that Watkins’ last studio may have been at 417 Montgomery or 1249 Market (where he rented photographic rooms).
I strongly recommend following and listening to the Modern Art Notes Podcast - this week’s episode is a long discussion of the recently released book “Carleton Watkins: The Complete Mammoth Photographs.”
120 years ago
László Moholy-Nagy. Funkturm Berlin (Berlin Radio Tower), 1928 - 1929.
Gianfranco Gorgoni, Agnes Martin Near Her House in Cuba, New Mexico, 1974
Faultless Test Site and the orientation of Michael Heizer’s "City"
Six people a day. I’ll keep trying, but it will probably take many years to get a reservation to see Michael Heizer’s "City" in remote Nevada.
I’ve been reading Kirk Varnedoe’s posthumous book "Pictures of Nothing" again. The book is based on his 2003 Mellon Lectures, which are on Youtube in their entirety. On Land Art and photography, Varnedoe says Gianfranco Gorgoni’s photograph "made Spiral Jetty one of the most well-known and least-seen works of art ever made." This also applies to "City," which was closed to visitors until almost two decades after Varnedoe’s lectures.
view of "Complex One" from what seems to be a Fourcade gallery announcement postcard or poster, ca. 70s-80s
Michael Heizer Holding Baby Rock, Nevada, Photo by Gianfranco Gorgoni, 1973
A 1970 photo by Gianfranco Gorgoni of Richard Serra and Robert Smithson fixing the soon-to-be-Spiral Jetty.
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The Ghost
1964
Sheet metal, rod, wire, and paint
September 2015