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kleinbl00  ·  2746 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The beauty of unloved buildings – in pictures

I appreciate your response. Thank you. BUT.

    There is no denying though that the photographer chose deliberate angles to show the buildings and her photos have deliberate compositions.

Yes - she chose rectilinear and centered. She basically... I mean, look.

Here's "Hidden Image #15, Berlin."

Dig into it a little (which I did, because it's her least bad photograph) and you discover that it's the Czech Embassy, built under the DDR. So, on the one hand, not "hidden." Not at all. Literally the top hit when you type "brutalist architecture Berlin."

But also, when you cruise Google, you get images like these:

...that's just the first page.

This shit offends me as a photographer. It's not art, it's some dreary Instagram bitch with a rich uncle with a gallery. Literally every picture on this page is better and they're just the author's shots to illustrate the stuff he likes. And I've taken architectural photos - for money - but it would never occur to me to think they were "gallery worthy" and my shit is better than this.