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Just as architecture seeks to frame and shape human activity in a given setting, photography has recourse to similar devices of framing and "constructing." Taking the point of view of the photographer engaging with some aspect of the designed and inhabited environment, this book examines the relationship between architecture and photography. A series of essays focus on the resonances and relationships which the photographer realizes between the techniques and the products of photography on the one hand, and the characteristics and processes of buildings and terrains on the other. The book reveals the resonances and rhymes between the two as they occur at different scales, at different times, and in different settings. There is an overarching focus on constructed space-from cities and landscapes to the single anonymous-and the question of how it is inhabited. Thus, the photographs examined become vehicles for thinking about the co-existence between individuals, social groups, their surrounding spaces, and settings in the city and the landscape. By focusing on questions of technique and practice on the one hand, and on the formal and aesthetic qualities of photographs on the other, it opens up new ways of looking at and thinking about architecture, and how we relate to our cities and landscape. Beautifully illustrated with photographs mostly, but not exclusively, from America, the book follows a chronological order, spanning from the early decades of the 20th century to the present.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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
Über den Autor / die Autorin
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 T
he Architecture in Ireland 1600-2000.
Zusammenfassung
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.
