Title & Author:

Haubitz + Zoche : hybrid modernism : movie theatres in South India / [authors, Rohan Shivkumar, S.V. Srinivas ; translation, Herwig Engelmann, Werner Petermann].

Edition:

First edition.

Publication:

Leipzig : Spector Books, 2016.

Description:

approximately 128 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 31 cm.

Notes:
Contains no title page, title from imprint.
On the occasion of an exhibition at Zephyr - Raum für Fotografie, Mannheim, June to August 2017.
Contains no title page, title from colophon.
Published in conjunction with an exhibition at Zephyr - Raum für Fotografie, Mannheim, June to August 2017.
Includes bibliographical references.
Parallel texts in English and German.

Summary:

In the period from the 1950s to the 1970s, a large number of cinemas were built in both the urban and rural areas of South India. Their architecture is an unusual mix of Western influences and local building styles. The brightly coloured facades resemble stage sets and provide a foretaste of the film experience in the auditorium, where the extravagant forms and embellishments are continued, getting the audience in the mood for the cinematic world before the opening credits roll. One might call this architectural language a kind of hybrid modernism. Many of these cinemas have been maintained in their original state. However, in the big cities, the process of converting them into multiplexes has already begun. Haubitz + Zoche's photographs from the period 2010 - 2013 document a piece of cinema culture that has already for the most part disappeared in Europe and the USA and is being increasingly displaced in India by commercial interests.

ISBN:

9783959050777 (hd.bd.)
3959050771 (hd.bd.)

Subject:

Haubitz + Zoche (Firm) Exhibitions.
Haubitz + Zoche (Firm)
Motion picture theaters India, South 20th century Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Photography, Artistic 21st century Exhibitions.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Exhibitions.
Photographie artistique 21e siècle Expositions.
Architecture 20e siècle Expositions.
Architecture, Modern.
Motion picture theaters.
Photography, Artistic.
Motion picture theaters India, South History 20th century Pictorial works Exhibitions.
Architecture India, South History 20th century Exhibitions.
South India.

Form/genre:

Exhibition catalogs.
exhibition catalogs.
illustrated books.
Illustrated works.
Exhibition, pictorial works.
Catalogues d'exposition.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Shivkumar, Rohan.
Srinivas, S. V.
Engelmann, Herwig.
Petermann, Werner.
Shivkumar, Rohan. author
Srinivas, S. V. author
Haubitz + Zoche (Firm)
Zephyr Raum für Fotografie (Mannheim, Germany)
Zephyr Raum für Fotografie (Mannheim, Germany) host institution

Hybrid modernism : movie theatres in South India

Holdings:

Location: Library main m 294815
Call No.: BIB 240681
Status: Available