unpeopled

The age-old "structures"—unpeopled ruins from India, Japan, Mexico and Scotland—appear contemporary because the photographs seem abstract.

A Long Path to a Belated Introduction Vibhuti Patel 2011

The age-old "structures"—unpeopled ruins from India, Japan, Mexico and Scotland—appear contemporary because the photographs seem abstract.

A Long Path to a Belated Introduction Vibhuti Patel 2011

But the most important and compelling details are in Arcimboldo's three reversible still lifes, when they're looked at as unpeopled kitchen scenes.

Blake Gopnik on the Arcimboldo exhibit at the National Gallery of Art 2010

Napoleon had drowned: It was an astonishing thing to see the Mississippi rolling between unpeopled shores and straight over the spot where I used to see a good big self-complacent town twenty years ago.

Interstate 69 Matt Dellinger 2010

“Ten years ago the place where we are gathered was an unpeopled, forbidding desert,” he observed.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

“Ten years ago the place where we are gathered was an unpeopled, forbidding desert,” he observed.

Colossus Michael Hiltzik 2010

Now the headland was deserted, Toynton Grange and 250 its cottages stood unlit and unpeopled under the heavy sky.

She Closed Her Eyes 2010

The latest painting in the series, Supper is, atypically, unpeopled — except that the dark shadow cast over the festive table speaks eloquently for those who are absent.

Artists: Contemporary Anglo. 2009

They reminded me once again that I enjoy O'Keefe's pretty colors, and am left utterly cold by Adams' perfectly composed black-and-white photos of unpeopled nature.

SFMOMA Free Tuesday 1: The Americans sfmike 2009

They reminded me once again that I enjoy O'Keefe's pretty colors, and am left utterly cold by Adams' perfectly composed black-and-white photos of unpeopled nature.

Archive 2009-06-01 sfmike 2009