The Lives of Documents: - Photography as Project - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3753305790 ISBN 13: 9783753305790

Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, 2024

Synopsis

Published on occasion of the exhibition The Lives of Documents Photography as Project, 3 May 2023 - 7 Apr 2024, Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA), Montreal. How do photographers select, order, and display their images? Conceived as part of a long-term project at the CCA to examine the contemporary role of photography in the study and practice of architecture, The Lives of Documents - Photography as Project prompts reflections on the idea of the documentary as an embedded quality of photography. Tracing the research materials, archiving practices, and production processes of diverse authors, photographers Bas Princen and Stefano Graziani highlight a selection of photographic projects that model our visible world by investigating notions of landscape and its destruction, global infrastructure, intimacy and interiority, and conditions of urban and domestic space and life. This publication follows Princen and Graziani’s travels to understand how artists use photography as a tool for their artistic research and how they conceive of their projects as evolving and expanding explorations. With contributions from Stefano Boeri, Guido Guidi, Naoya Hatakeyama, Takashi Homma, Roni Horn, Annette Kelm, Gert Jan Kocken, Aglaia Konrad, Susanne Kriemann, Armin Linke, Ari Marcopoulos, Richard Misrach, Marianne Mueller, Phyllis Lambert, Tokuko Ushioda, and Jeff Wall. Co-published with Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA).

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How do photographers select, order, and display their images? Conceived as part of a long-term project at the CCA to examine the contemporary role of photography in the study and practice of architecture, The Lives of Documents - Photography as Project prompts reflections on the idea of the documentary as an embedded quality of photography. Tracing the research materials, archiving practices, and production processes of diverse authors, photographers Bas Princen and Stefano Graziani highlight a selection of photographic projects that model our visible world by investigating notions of landscape and its destruction, global infrastructure, intimacy and interiority, and conditions of urban and domestic space and life. This publication follows Princen and Graziani's travels to understand how artists use photography as a tool for their artistic research and how they conceive of their projects as evolving and expanding explorations.

Text: Guido Guidi, Naoya Hatakeyama, Takashi Homma, Roni Horn, Annette Kelm, Gert Jan Kocken, Aglaia Konrad, Susanne Kriemann, Armin Linke, Ari Marcopoulos, Richard Misrach, Marianne Mueller, Phyllis Lambert, Tokuko Ushioda, and Jeff Wall.

Edition details

• Publisher: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
• Publication date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3753305790
• ISBN 13: 9783753305790
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320
• Editor: Princen Bas, Graziani Stefano