Full Description
While much has been written about how photography serves architecture, this book looks at how fine-art photographers frame constructed space - from cities to single anonymous rooms. It analyses various techniques used and reveals resonances and rhythms found in the photographs as they occur at different scales, times and settings.
Photographs become vehicles for thinking about the co-existence between individuals and social groups and their surroundings spaces and settings in the city and the landscape. By considering questions of technique and practice on the one hand, and the formal and aesthetic qualities of photographs on the other, the book opens up new ways of looking at and thinking about architecture and how we relate to our environment.
Contents
Introduction; Section I: Documenting Building; Chapter 1. The Façade and the Frame; Chapter 2. The Art-Facts and Life-Facts of Building; Chapter 3. How the Mind Meets Architecture: What Photography Reveals; Chapter 4. Construction Performance: How the camera Records Progress on Site; Section II: Life in the City; Chapter 5. Unconscious Choreography; Chapter 6. Urban Fragments, Urban Tumult; Chapter 7. The City Stilled and Surveyed; Chapter 8. The Self and the City; Section III: Landscape and Territory; Chapter 9. Exploring Terrains New Topographics; Chapter 10. New Territories; Conclusion
