Romain Laprade’s Hallways operates as a compelling investigation into the apartment building lobbies of Paris constructed throughout the 1970s. Long treated as transitional non-places or dated relics of mid-century urbanism, these domestic entryways embody a distinct era’s projected vision of modern luxury and material optimism.
Laprade approaches these interior environments with archival precision, cataloging their signature geometries, integrated planter beds, textured masonry, polished marble, and warm synthetic lighting. Rather than viewing these spaces through a lens of nostalgia, his compositions accentuate their enduring structural coherence and spatial tension, suggesting that these lobbies have persisted unchanged precisely because their original aesthetic ambition remains functionally and visually unmatched.
Foster street (Manhattan), 3pm October 15, 1972 by Masao Gozu is a classic example of the Japanese-American photographer’s meticulous and structured documentation of 1970s New York.
After moving to New York from Japan in 1971, Gozu began a rigorous, decade-long project photographing the city's street-level windows and the people gazing out of them. This image is a hallmark of that typological approach.
By shooting squarely and directly at the facade, Gozu uses the architectural elements (the bricks, the sill, and the window frame itself) as a physical border. This framing device highlights the threshold between the private, domestic sphere inside and the gritty, public reality of 1970s New York outside.
Gozu's"Windows" series will be the focus of his first major US museum exhibition, "Masao Gozu: Windows and Bars," opening at MoMA PS1 on November 5, 2026.
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