Local Inspiration
- Oscar Reid
- Nov 8
- 2 min read
This blog is all about French photography! I definitely think that the subject is becoming far more accessible and more diverse. I like the way the photography is very democratic and there's a lot you can learn about it in books and at galleries it's one way of learning about the world. I also liked the work of Le Corbusier his paintings and like Cartier-Bresson he has left a truly amazing legacy. When you look at the contemporary world it has been like a symbiosis of different movements, in ecology and the arts. So artists have shaped the world we live in and especially 'great art'. There are lots of different things to see, I haven't yet visited these spaces but became more aware of them via my travels in Europe. It seems that quite a lot of ideas and thought have been achieved closely and near to the new areas of scholarly interest such as the environment. I am also very interested in the spaces we have already built and how to make better use of them. Not simply to add to the old fashioned viewpoint that we find at the minute, that we can recover from C20 and look to a bright future, there are some good things from the century and they are often proving more functional than some of the earlier examples, there was this move away from the past and looking to a more austere kind of present, and the palette of materials is always changing.
What I think both Bresson and Le Corbusier show is that the world is constantly evolving and you really have to be at your best and most capable to capture the most important insights, and not be afraid to have principles because they are often lacking in other places, that may not survive in the long run, we have a use for communal design and socialism is showing no signs of going away at any time. Especially now that New York has a new Mayor here's to you NYC! So to achieve the long term goals people have always needed strong visions, look at modernism for example. It didn't always work and there are some unusual examples, here's two examples of modern masterworks that were differently received.
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