Madeleine Doering Isom is an artist-photographer residing in New York City. She received her undergraduate degrees in Liberal Arts from Loyola University of Chicago and the Sculpture Department from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, concurrently. She attended the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University in New York. Working in sculpture, photography and architecture has given her a unique perspective transmitted through densely layered images of urban architecture and structural form. Her work has been featured in solo exhibitions in both New York City and Chicago as well as several group shows including The San Diego Art Institute’s 2001 International Exhibition. Read the rest of this entry »
Madeleine Doering Isom
August 10th, 2009Palace of Fine Arts (San Francisco)-1st Part
August 10th, 2009
San Francisco is a wonderful and amazing city. Just one of those surprises that gave us walking its streets, was to find how far the leadership that would lead us to this “Palace.” It is close to the Marina and the access to Golden Gate. While it is fairly easy to find and knowledge, people who visited San Francisco and this place did not coincide with deep regret after seeing our pictures. Read the rest of this entry »
World Trade Center
August 10th, 2009
As a photographic artist whose subject is architecture, I’ve been under tremendous pressure from the architecture/preservation community, the architectural periodicals and my collector base to produce imagery of the WTC.I have however, ignored the pressure to photograph the ruins. The WTC was conceived as a symbol of power and prosperity; a business center designed as a city onto itself. Read the rest of this entry »
Bricks and Brownstone: The New York Row House 1783-1929
August 10th, 2009
About the Author:
Charles Lockwood is the author of seven books about American architecture and cities, including Manhattan Moves Uptown, Suddenly San Francisco, Dream Palaces: Hollywood at Home, and The Estates of Beverly Hills. He has written frequently about architecture and cities for the Atlantic, New York Times, and Wall Street Journal, and he has received a Guggenheim Fellowship in support of his research and writing.
By Charles Lockwood
Introduction by Paul Goldberger
Photographs by Madeleine Doering isom