As Antipixel recently pointed out, the Japanese construction industry excels at the immaculate wrapping of buildings while they are under construction. Tadao Ando's redevelopment of the Dojunkai Aoyama Apartment complex on Omotesando Dori is no exception, and is, perhaps, more striking than most. Over the last few days, a selection of more than twenty 5m high photographs have slowly been mounted onto the approx. 100m long hoardings fronting this redevelopment. The images have been supplied by Magnum Photos Tokyo and Corbis Japan, and feature works by acclaimed photographers such as nonagenarian Eve Arnold and Elliott Erwitt. Installation will be completed by Tuesday, and should prove to be a rather tasty visual feast for all photography buffs.

Photos from the G8 riots in Geneva on Sunday 1 June and Monday 2 June by travel photographer Christophe Gevrey (via Boing Boing).

Japanese photographer Hisashi Murayama's delicate black-and-white work, Parol, is highlighted in this flash presentation on French photography collective site, Tangophoto.

La Familia Rodelu is a moving photo essay by Daniel Machado about Jose Rodelu, the only remaining member of a middle class family from Uruguay who were prominent in the first half of the twentieth century. Jose now lives mostly confined to his bedroom, surrounded by the memories of his family.

Peter Conrad reviews a series of photography exhibitions in London, questioning the distinction between photography as art and photography as documentation: "In the era of Big Brother, everything exists to be photographed--though that does not mean that the result is worth looking at". On the current exhibition at the Tate Modern, Cruel and Tender, he notes:

Walter Benjamin praised Atget's photographs of deserted, dejected Parisian streets for 'sucking the aura from reality like water from a sinking ship'. Benjamin valued the camera as an alienatory tool, which censored affection and intimacy 'in favour of the illumination of details'. Has this insidious machine depleted the world it so unstoppably records?