Hubbert’s Peak, Eneropa, and the Visualization of Renewable Energy

By Daniel A. Barber
On Places, Daniel Barber traces the energy debates back to the postwar era, when leading scientists argued that shifting from fossil fuels to renewables was not just technically feasible but also ethically necessary.

“Everyone a Tourist”

By Jim Bassett
On Places, a slideshow of photographs of the Mayan ruins at Chichén Itzá, by Jim Bassett, contrasts the romantic tradition of travel photography with the realities of mass tourism.

Digital Deception

By Belmont Freeman
On Places, Belmont Freeman argues it's time to grapple with the artistic and professional consequences — and ethical dilemmas — of today's ever more powerful digital rendering technologies.

Temple of the Vanities

By Thomas Jorion & Josh Wallaert
On Places, recent work by photographer Thomas Jorion, documenting defense towers, nuclear reactors, munitions depots and other 20th-century monuments to political and military hubris, now mostly abandoned.

Please Save Modernism from the Modern

By David Heymann
On Places, David Heymann makes the case for why the Folk Art Museum is a great modernist building — and why the Museum of Modern Art should reverse its decision to tear it down.

Expect Everything

By Peter Holzhauer & Aaron Rothman
On Places, a slideshow by photographer Peter Holzhauer, of his recent work on Los Angeles, curated by Aaron Rothman.

Hubbert’s Peak, Eneropa, and the Visualization of Renewable Energy

“Everyone a Tourist”

Digital Deception

Temple of the Vanities

Please Save Modernism from the Modern

Expect Everything

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