Eric De Mare (Architecture in Camera) - Softcover

Elwall, Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1859460836 ISBN 13: 9781859460832

Publisher: RIBA Publications, 2000

Synopsis

Eric de Mari (1910) is one of Britain's most important and influential architectural photographers. Having trained as an architect in the early 1930s, he subsequently dedicated his career to photography and writing and his compelling images played a leading role in the re-evaluation of British Modernism after the Second World War. A short essay, as an introduction to this book, outlines the life of the photographer and helps to paint an intriguing picture of some of the seminal moments in modern architecture.

This is the second book in the new Architecture in Camera series, which aims to exploit the superb archive of the RIBA's Photographs Collection. It offers readers a rich appreciation of rare and unpublished work in an accessible, pocket book format. Together, the Architecture in Camera series will represent a unique record of the very best photography of the very finest architecture, a series to collect and treasure.

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From the Back Cover

Born of Swedish Parents, de Mari greatly admired the vernacular humanism of Swedish architecture, which he posited as an alternative to the rigid formalism of the International Style.

From the late 1940s a series of commissions to document Britain's industrial heritage resulted in a corpus of striking images of anonymous, vernacular structures such as warehouses, textile factories and canal buildings that came to be collectively labelled the Functional Tradition This struck a resonant chord with contemporary architects and strongly influenced the development of New Brutalism - a movement he deplored - and the work of architects such as Jim Stirling.

His later work shows a concern for preservation, including a series of Victorian buildings at risk as well as many taken during his extensive travels. Above all, Eric de Mari will be remembered for greatly broadening the perception of where 'architecture' was to be found and for crystallising the architectonic potential of photography.

Edition details

• Publisher: RIBA Publications
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1859460836
• ISBN 13: 9781859460832
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 108