New York Magazine: The Photograph Our Art Critic Can't Stop Thinking About

Among the greatest means ever invented by our species for housing and fabricating faith on Earth are those incredible stone edifices meant to conspire with the higher forces, the tools for knowing God that we call churches. In a series of huge, riveting, incredibly intricate photographic composites- some using as many as 2,000 digital images blended together to create an idealized form, with the highest spires rendered in the same painstaking detail as the lowest steps- the German-born Markus Brunetti prods you to wonder about lofty spiritual intangibles as well as the lives of the people who built and believed in these buildings and religions. Brunetti's depiction of the cathedral in Magdeburg, Gemrany, puts me on zap with its daring visual distortion and newly revealed symmetries. It's so unreal it becomes its own reality: a trip to a weird architectural-digital-cosmic plane.