Balthazar Korab Architect of Photography (Hardback) /anglais - Couverture rigide

Comazzi, John

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 161689041X ISBN 13 : 9781616890414

Editeur : Princeton Architectural Press, 2012

Synopsis

Balthazar Korab While Balthazar Korab's photography has been widely published in books on architecture, landscape and design and his contributions to the representation of midcentury Modern architecture has been greatly celebrated, there has never been a publication dedicated exclusively to his life, career and practice. This book will be the first monograph on Korab and includes a broad and comprehensive presentation of his professional architecture photography. In addition to this extensive portfolio, Balthazar Korab, Architect of Photography highlights previously unpublished images, lesser known (though no less significant), produced throughout his career. A thorough, il...

A propos du livre

Revue de presse :

"[Korab's] work's enduring value is as a document of the push and pull of midcentury, the conflict between the curve and the cube at the moment America became the center of world design." --Wall Street Journal

Don't expect systematic theory, or an absence of repetition, but do expect love and loathing expressed in prose close to the 400-nanometer end of the colour spectrum, but precise and exhilarating nonetheless. Never knowingly under-adjectived, not shy of neologisms, Meades offers up phrases such as the following, in which he accuses contemporary architects of "feeding on the avant-garde of many decades ago, merely saucing the dish with sustainastic, sustainabulous splashes of green piety and chromatic discord --The Observer

Biographie de l'auteur :

John Comazzi is an Assistant Professor of Architecture, he teaches undergraduate and graduate level design courses and research seminars. He has been a personal acquaintance of Balthazar, Monica, and Christian Korab since 1997, when as a graduate student in architecture he assisted in the assembly of an exhibition of Mr. Korab s photography at the University of Michigan. Since 2006 he has conducted over twenty five hours of interviews with the Korabs and has spent countless hours examining the photographic archives in the Korab studio. He has lectured on the life and career of Balthazar Korab in both public and academic venues and together they have curated and assembled several traveling exhibitions.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Princeton Architectural Press
• Date d'édition: 2012
• ISBN 10: 161689041X
• ISBN 13: 9781616890414
• Reliure: Relié
• Numéro d'édition: 1
• Nombre de pages: 192