staircase

Towner

Some architectural shots at the Towner in Eastbourne, to go consider for my ongoing series exploring the semiotics of official art spaces.

View from an upper level looking down a curved staircase with a handrail, showing a concrete wall and a street outside.

View of a modern glass entrance with revolving doors leading to an exterior area, featuring a ground view of the pathway and surrounding greenery. — Towner Eastbourne

I continue to explore the house at the corner, following on from the last two days’ posts. After passing the side, I had a brief view over an ivied wall, of the back of the building, giving on to the garden.

One thing I did before shooting was switch the camera to shoot in Fujifilm ACROS, a rich black and white film stock – I was trying to get a full range of tones (of course, I was shooting raw, so all the colour information was captured but it was helpful to visualise it in B&W right through the viewfinder.

to be continued…

Courtauld Staircase

Everyone who visits must take a picture like this but it’s seemingly impossible not to when you havea camera in your hand and are confronted by the sight.

Staircase

from below and above

Night Passage

A person walking up a set of dimly lit stairs surrounded by colorful graffiti on the walls at night. — Conway St passage, Hove

Interior Space

As always, I was as taken by the interior design and architecture at the Tate Britain as I was by the art shown there. Of course, the grandeur (and symmetry) of these temples of art makes a strong statement of its own.

Gallery Space

Spiral

Interiors

More interesting museum interior spaces.
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Stair and Ramp

Museum Spaces

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (La Jolla)

National Museum

We visited the National Museum (of Art), Muzeum Narodowe. Once again I was more interested in photographing the spaces and the geometry than the art and artifacts. Click any of the images below to see them bigger.

Stare Miasto

We visited the Warsaw Old Town, which appears to have been rebuilt after the war (1950s mostly, I think) chiefly for the tourist trade: very charming and old fashioned, with lots of restaurants and gift shops. I’ll be posting a bunch of touristy snaps over the next few days’ posts. Click on images below to see larger.

Tate Stairs

I’ve photographed this stair case on previous visits to the Tate Modern – it’s hard not to want to. Here are two more from my late March visit.

Number 9

Royal Institute of British Architects, London

Next stop on our gallery tour was the Royal Institute of British Architects in Portland Place. We’d been hoping to see the photography exhibit, Wide Angle View but it was closed and we contented ourselves with an exhibition of student projects and a library project on the difficulties faced by women architects in the largely male world of architecture.

Sugimoto Space

And, as always when I’m visiting a museum or gallery, I’m as interested in the space and the geometry as in the art exhibited (and finding some place for my reflection). Click any of the images below to see them full-size.

Art Space

I continue to be struck by museums and galleries’ use of space. All the whiteness, openness, vastness and what this says about wealth in the hegemonic metropolises. This is particularly seen in empty space, and the use of geometry in defining spaces like staircases. The Tate Modern is a little bit of a special case, situated as it is in a former power station but the vastness of the space continues to echo the theme. Click on any of the images below to see them full sized.

Chicago Cultural Center

More than the art in the sole, hallway exhibition mentioned in yesterday’s post, was the architecture of the Chicago Cultural Center which was quite ornate. Click on any of the pictures below to see them all larger.