Record Pictures Raymond Meeks Cole left his arrangements entirely

Cole left his arrangements entirely to chance

Michael Schmidt wurde 1945 in Berlin geboren

as part of the culture program of the Swedish Polar Research Secretariat

blank walls create an aura of emptiness and abandonment

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Record Pictures Raymond Meeks Cole left his arrangements entirelyBefore the invention of photography, civil engineers employed topographic artists to record the progression of their projects. Termed "Record Pictures", these illustrations followed the tradition of the Dutch topographical landscapes of the seventeenth century, combining the qualities of detail and clarity with the objectivity of technical drawings. As such, Record Pictures had a scientific rather than an artistic purpose. This is exactly how