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Urban Atrophy: Haunting Photos of Architectural Ghosts. By Maria Popova What Classic Coke has to do with abandoned dolls and the afterlife of buildings. The Japanese find beauty in decay, accepting the natural cycle of growth and collapse. This philosophy might be foreign to our Western clinging to the corporeal, but since 2005, Dan Haga and Dan Ayers have been looking for beauty and poeticism in abandoned schools, psychiatric hospitals, missile silos, amusement parks, cathedrals, jails, churches, and other remnants of modern civilization.

This year, they immortalized their finds in Urban Atrophy — a spellbinding collection of 560 striking, haunting images, alongside text that contextualizes these architectural ghosts and exposes the afterlife of ordinary buildings. Pennhurst Hospital Charles H. The Queen Theater United Cross Fort Washington Hebrew Orphan Asylum Mayfair Theatre via Web Urbanist; images from Urban Atrophy Brain Pickings has a free weekly newsletter and people say it’s cool. Share on Tumblr. Burning man, festival barré du Nevada. Beyond Perspective: An Artificial Bird’s Eye View Of City Movement. Hungarian-born photographer, Adam Magyar observes the ways thousands of people move and intersect in central urban spaces.

From Tokyo to New York, Magyar’s lens captures a bird’s eye view of vibrant city life, what motivates the movement, and the many paths which are crossed. In actuality, the crowd in each image and vantage point don’t exist, but are a composite of hundreds of photos, where individual shots of people walking from a close range are patched together. The clever illusion of hustle and bustle is created by zooming out giving the appearance of a jampacked town square. Adam Magyar. Adam Magyar. Miha Artnak, Layers, Slovenia.