Cyprien Gaillard's work explores the effect of architecture on human life, using techniques borrowed from Land Art and Minimalism. He treats modernist buildings as romantic ruins, and aestheticizes their destruction. Gaillard films the demolition of housing projects and the explosions that carve away

Architectural, Catastrophe, Melancholy, Minimal, Monumental, Nostalgic, Pastoral, Power

Education 2008 Parsons The New School for Design, MFA Graduate, New York, NY 1997 The Ontario College of Art and Design, BFA Graduate, Toronto, ON Solo Exhibitions 2009 River’s Edge, D.U.M.B.O Art Under The Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY 2007 Undercurrents, XEXE Gallery,

Abstract, Architectural, Clean, Conceptual, Layered, Minimal, Monochromatic, Representational

Candida Hofer is a German photographer known for her exploration of architecture, especially of museums and concert halls. Her monumental pictures juxtapose the immensity of the buildings against the human scale of the visitor.

Architectural, Monumental

Christian Boltanski is a French photographer, sculptor, painter, and installation artist. Born in Paris in 1944 to a Jewish father of Ukrainian heritage, and a Corsican Christian mother, Boltanski was attracted to painting and drawing as a young child, and left school at the age of 12. In the late â€

Architectural, Atmospheric, Contemplative, Dark, Death, Dramatic, Ironic, Melancholy, Monumental, Tragic