Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture - Couverture souple

Lichtenstein, Therese

 
9783791357294: Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 3791357298 ISBN 13 : 9783791357294
Editeur : Prestel, 2018

Synopsis

Photography has both manipulated and bolstered our appreciation of modern architecture. With beautiful photographs of private and public buildings by Julius Shulman, Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, and others, this book examines the central and active role that photography plays in defining and perpetuating the iconic nature of buildings and places. This volume shows how different photographers represent the same building, offers commentaries on the “American dream,” and explores changes in commercial architectural photography. Placing decades-old images alongside modern ones, Image Building depicts the idea of the comfortable middle-class home and the construction of suburbia as an ironic ideal. It presents the ways that public spaces such as libraries, museums, theaters, and office buildings are experienced differently as photographers highlight the social, cultural, psychological, and aesthetic conditions to reveal the layered meanings of place and identity. Looking at how photography shapes and frames our understanding of architecture, this volume offers thought-provoking points of view through an exploration of social and cultural issues.

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À propos de l?auteur

THERESE LICHTENSTEIN is the author of Behind Closed Doors: The Art of Hans Bellmer. Her articles have appeared in Art in America, Artforum, and Arts Magazine. She currently teaches at the Ross School in East Hampton, New York.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Photography has both manipulated and bolstered our appreciation of modern architecture. With beautiful photographs of private and public buildings by Julius Shulman, Candida Höfer, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, and others, this book examines the central and active role that photography plays in defining and perpetuating the iconic nature of buildings and places. This volume shows how different photographers represent the same building, offers commentaries on the “American dream,” and explores changes in commercial architectural photography. Placing decades-old images alongside modern ones, Image Building depicts the idea of the comfortable middle-class home and the construction of suburbia as an ironic ideal. It presents the ways that public spaces such as libraries, museums, theaters, and office buildings are experienced differently as photographers highlight the social, cultural, psychological, and aesthetic conditions to reveal the layered meanings of place and identity. Looking at how photography shapes and frames our understanding of architecture, this volume offers thought-provoking points of view through an exploration of social and cultural issues.

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Éditeur
Prestel
Date d'édition
2018
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
3791357298
ISBN 13 
9783791357294
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
160
Coordonnées du fabricant
non disponible
Personne responsable
non disponible