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Architecture has long been a subject matter for photographers, who utilise 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 colour 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 on-going dialogue between photography and architecture. This book also contains a contextualising essay by curators Alona Pardo and Elias Redstone and a history of the relationship between photography and architecture written by David Campany, Published in association with the Barbican Art Gallery, London.
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About the Author
Alona Pardo is an Associate Curator at Barbican Art Gallery in London. She has curated numerous projects at the Barbican as well as at South London Gallery and the Austrian Cultural Forum in London. Elias Redstone is the author of Shooting Space: Architecture in Contemporary Photography and the curator of Archizines. He has served as a curator of the Architecture Foundation in London, the London Festival of Architecture and the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. David Campany is a writer and curator. His books include Walker Evans: the magazine work, Gasoline, Jeff Wall: Picture for Women, Photography and Cinema and Art and Photography.
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Architecture has long been a subject matter for photographers, who utilise 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 colour 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
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- PublisherPrestel
- Publication date2014
- ISBN 10 3791381156
- ISBN 13 9783791381152
- BindingHardcover
- LanguageEnglish
- Edition number1
- Number of pages256
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