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.
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Beautifully illustrated, this series of essays examines the relationship between architecture and photography through the work of major photographers from the early C20th to the present and focuses on how they engage with some aspect of the designed and inhabited environment.
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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
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Product details

ISBN
9781848222731
Published
2020-10-01
Publisher
Lund Humphries Publishers Ltd
Height
250 mm
Width
190 mm
Age
G, P, 01, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
184

Author

Biographical note

Professor Hugh Campbell is the Dean of Architecture and Head of the School of Architecture, Planning and Environmental Policy at University College Dublin. He co-edited with Rolf Loeber and others Architecture 1600–2000, which is volume 4 of Art and Architecture of Ireland published by Yale University Press in 2014. With Nathalie Weadick of the Irish Architecture Foundation, he curated Ireland's exhibition at the 2008 Venice Biennale, The Lives of Spaces, and he was co-curator with Grafton Architects of the Close Encounter section of the 2018 Venice Biennale.