Thursday, 6:14pm
11 December 2008
The aesthetics of emptiness
Pictures of empty and abandoned spaces in the US and Japan

Abandoned buildings and places have always invited photography – Derek Yates sent us this link to a Japanese site jam-packed with elegant emptiness
(above and below). There are many more – let us know about your favourites.

In fact there’s a Common Knowledge piece about Drive-Ins cinemas in the forthcoming Eye (no. 70), by Mike Kippenhan, who pointed out that even the working cinemas looked abandoned (below).


