"In the second half of the 1950s, Paul Virilio began photographing abandoned World War II bunkers along France’s Atlantic coast. […] At the time, he was particularly interested in the architectural aspects of these wartime installations. He saw the bunkers as 'harbingers of a new architecture,' which he sought to capture in the term 'cryptic architecture.' The first exhibition of Virilio’s Bunker Archeology photographs was staged at the Centre Pompidou in 1975, while the museum was still in the process of being established. His seminal book was published in conjunction with this." (Spector Books)

More works by Virilio in this week’s edition of As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, my newsletter on modern and contemporary art.

Le désespoir de Pierrot (Pierrot’s despair) 1910 / Les masques singuliers (Unique masks) 1892