| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 27 cm |
| Note |
On the occasion of an exhibition held at Barbican Art Gallery, London, September 25, 2014 - January 11, 2015 and at the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, Stockholm, February 20 - May 17, 2015. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-277). |
| Summary |
Architecture has long been a subject matter for photographers, who utilize the medium not just to document the built world, but also to reveal wider truths about society. This book features chapters devoted to various artists - among them, Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, Ed Ruscha, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Andreas Gursky and Iwan Baan - and includes 220 color and duotone images. Each chapter opens with a text introducing the artists; work, followed by reproductions of their photographs. Arranged chronologically, the book documents the birth of the skyscraper against the backdrop of the Great Depression; the rise of the modernist tradition in America, post-colonial Africa, and India; the effects of industry on 1960s Europe; the increasing suburbanization of America and Europe; and the consequences of today; s mass urbanization in Asia, the Middle East, and South America. Far-reaching and penetrating, this volume reflects on the ongoing dialogue between photography and architecture. |
| Contents |
Foreword -- Introduction -- Architecture as photography: document, publicity, commentary, art / David Campany -- Berenice Abbott -- Walker Evans -- Julius Shulman -- Lucien Hervé -- Ed Ruscha -- Bernd and Hilla Becher -- Stephen Shore -- Thomas Struth -- Luigi Ghirri -- Hélène Binet -- Hiroshi Sugimoto -- Luisa Lambri -- Andreas Gursky -- Simon Norfolk -- Guy Tillim -- Bas Princen -- Nadav Kander -- Iwan Baan. |
| Subject |
Architecture and photography -- Exhibitions.
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Architectural photography -- Exhibitions.
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Architecture, Modern -- 21st century -- Exhibitions.
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Architectural photography. (OCoLC)fst00813301
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Architecture and photography. (OCoLC)fst00813569
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Architecture, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00813842
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| Chronological Term |
2000 - 2099
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| Genre/Form |
Exhibition catalogs. (OCoLC)fst01424028
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| Added Author |
Pardo, Alona, editor.
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Redstone, Elias, editor.
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Barbican Art Gallery, host institution.
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Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.
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| Cover Title |
Constructing worlds : photography and architecture in the modern age |
| ISBN |
9783791381152 hd. bd. |
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3791381156 hd. bd. |
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