Title & Author:

Photography and architecture in the modern age / edited by Alona Pardo and Elias Redstone.

Publication:

London : Barbican Art Gallery ; Munich ; New York : Prestel, 2014.

Description:

279 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm

Notes:
On the occasion of an exhibition held at Barbican Art Gallery, London, September 25, 2014-January 11, 2015 and at the Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, Stockholm, February 20-May 17, 2015.
"Graham Foundation."
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277).
Foreword -- Introduction -- Architecture as photography : document, publicity, commentary, art / by David Campany -- Berenice Abbott -- Walker Evans -- Julius Shulman -- Lucien Hervé -- Ed Ruscha -- Bernd and Hilla Becher -- Stephen Shore -- Thomas Struth -- Luigi Ghirri -- Hélène Binet -- Hiroshi Sugimoto -- Luisa Lambri -- Andreas Gursky -- Simon Norfolk -- Guy Tillim -- Bas Princen -- Nadav Kander -- Iwan Baan.

Summary:

Architecture has long been a subject matter for photographers, who utilize 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 color 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 ongoing dialogue between photography and architecture.

Resources:
Publisher description

ISBN:

9783791381152 (hd. bd.)
3791381156 (hd. bd.)

Subject:

Architecture and photography Exhibitions.
Architectural photography Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern 21st century Exhibitions.
Architecture et photographie Expositions.
Photographie d'architecture Expositions.
Architecture 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture 21e siècle Expositions.
Architectural photography
Architecture and photography
Architecture, Modern
Architekturfotografie
Arkitekturfotografi.
1930-2011

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogues.
Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Pardo, Alona, editor.
Redstone, Elias, editor.
Barbican Art Gallery.
Arkitektur- och designcentrum.
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts.

Constructing worlds : photography and architecture in the modern age

Holdings:

Location: Library main 288916
Call No.: BIB 230948
Status: Available