ASME Best Magazine Cover of The Year
The cover of the November 12, 2012, issue of New York Magazine depicting Hurricane Sandy was chosen by magazine editors as “Cover of the Year” in the seventh annual ASME Best Cover Contest, which was open to all consumer magazines published in calendar year 2012. The announcement was made today… Continue reading
Man of the Moment – The Architects Newspaper
If you don’t know who Iwan Baan is by now, then you’re not paying attention. In a relatively short period of time he has become the go-to photographer in the architecture business, combining a sharp eye for design with a talent for humanizing and storytelling that is missing in so… Continue reading
Glories Restored, Rijksmuseum Is Reopening After 10 Years
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Seeing The Subway, Part Two – Photo Essay – The New Yorker
Earlier this month, we looked at the New York City subway over time. This week, we’ve curated a selection of contemporary images from subways around the world. While we couldn’t include all subway systems, big or small, below are pictures from artists who have significant bodies of work on… Continue reading
Iwan Baan’s Inclusive Eye – The New York Times
It has been just eight years since Iwan Baan began photographing architecture, but the way he sees the world has already made him a big name. His striking aerial photograph of Manhattan divided by the post-Sandy power outage quickly became an iconic image. “The Way We Live,” a solo exhibition… Continue reading
Iwan Baan on “architecture without architects”
In a movie Dezeen filmed at his Golden Lion-winning installation in collaboration with Justin McGuirk and Urban-Think Tank at the Venice Architecture Biennale, architectural photographer Iwan Baan talks about how residents have built their own homes between the columns and floor plates of the unfinished Torre David skyscraper in… Continue reading
“The city and the storm” wins Pictures of the Year International First Prize
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The 50 Most Iconic Artworks of the Past Five Years
Pieces that have defined our culture in the contemporary moment. 39. Iwan Baan “The City and the Storm,” 2012… Continue reading
Disruption Index: Iwan Baan – Next City
“…A serial globe-trotter who charters helicopters like most people make dinner reservations, Baan has become the most notable architecture photographer in recent years for his style of capturing not only buildings but also their urban context. It’s a more humanizing approach to a field that had previously been steeped in… Continue reading
The best photographs of 2012 – in pictures
From the camaraderie of the Tour de France to snipers in Syria, Sarah Gilbert selects her favourite pictures of the year. The Guardian… Continue reading
Iwan Baan is now represented by Perry Rubenstein Gallery
Some of the press: Complex Art+Design: Photographer of NY Mag’s Hurricane Sandy Cover is Now Represented by Perry Rubenstein Gallery ARTINFO: Iwan Baan Crosses Over Into Fine Art at Perry Rubenstein Gallery Gallerist NY: Iwan Baan Joins Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Proceeds of Iconic Sandy… Continue reading
Our new book Torre David – Informal Vertical Communities is out!
Edited by Urban-Think Tank Chair of Architecture and Urban Design, ETH Zurich – Photographs by Iwan Baan Torre David, a 45-story skyscraper in Caracas, has remained uncompleted since the Venezuelan economy collapsed in 1994. Today, it is the improvised home to more than 750 families living in an extra-legal… Continue reading