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Constructing worlds : photography and architecture in the modern age

Constructing worlds : photography and architecture in the modern age

Book 2014

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...

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ISBN:
9783791381152
Description:
279 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 27 cm
Other Title:
Photography and architecture in the modern age
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
Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-277)
Contents:
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
Control Number:
1532622
Other Authors:
Arkitektur- och designcentrum
Barbican Art Gallery
Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts
Pardo, Alona
Redstone, Elias
Swedish Centre for Architecture and Design, Stockholm
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