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PublisherPrestel Gmbh & Co KG.

ISBN-103791381156

ISBN-139783791381152

eBay Product ID (ePID)201678556

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Book TitleConstructing Worlds

Number of Pages256 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicSubjects & Themes / Architectural & Industrial, Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General

Publication Year2014

IllustratorYes

GenrePhotography

AuthorElias Redstone, Alona Pardo, David Campany

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Weight20 oz

Item Length10.2 in

Item Width8.2 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2015-472211

Reviews"[ Constructing Worlds's ] images and accompanying essays constitute a sort of world report in which landscapes, mostly urban, range from the familiar (e.g., Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and Julius Shulman) to the contemporary (e.g., Iwan Baan, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Nadav Kander, Bas Pincen, Guy Tillim, and Andreas Gursky) . . . Each photographer's work is accompanied by a brief but illuminating essay by one of the nine writers." --J. Quinan, independent scholar, Choice, "Stunning and historically relevant." -- Juxtapoz "[ Constructing Worlds's ] images and accompanying essays constitute a sort of world report in which landscapes, mostly urban, range from the familiar (e.g., Berenice Abbott, Walker Evans, and Julius Shulman) to the contemporary (e.g., Iwan Baan, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Nadav Kander, Bas Pincen, Guy Tillim, and Andreas Gursky) . . . Each photographer's work is accompanied by a brief but illuminating essay by one of the nine writers." --J. Quinan, independent scholar, Choice "[This book is] invaluable to students of photography and architecture throughout the world." --Peter S. Kaufman, Boston Architectural Center, Library Journal

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal779.4

SynopsisPhotography and Architecture in the Modern Age The relationship between architecture and photography is the focus of this book that features the work of eighteen influential artists, from the 1930s to the present day. 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 colour and duotone images. Each chapter opens with a text introducing the artists' work, followed by reproductions of their photographs. Arranged chronologically, the book documents the birth of the skyscraper against the backdrop of the Great Depression; the rise of the modernist tradition in America, post-colonial Africa, and India; the effects of industry on 1960s Europe; the increasing suburbanization of America and Europe; and the consequences of today's mass urbanization in Asia, the Middle East, and South America. Far-reaching and penetrating, this volume reflects on the ongoing dialogue between photography and architecture. AUTHOR: Alona Pardo is an Associate Curator at Barbican Art Gallery in London. She has curated numerous projects at the Barbican as well as at the South London Gallery and the Austrian Cultural Forum in London. Elias Redstone is the author of 'Shooting Space: Architecture in Contemporary Photography' and the curator of Archizines. He has served as a curator of the Architecture Foundation in London, the London Festival of Architecture, and the Polish Pavilion at the Venice Architecture Biennale. David Campany is a writer and curator. His books include 'Walker Evans: The Magazine Work', 'Gasoline', 'Jeff Wall: Picture for Women', 'Photography and Cinema and Art and Photography'. 220 illustrations, The relationship between architecture and photography is the focus of this book that features the work of eighteen influential artists, from the 1930s to the present day. 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 by reproductions of their photographs. Arranged chronologically, the book documents the birth of the skyscraper against the backdrop of the Great Depression; the rise of the modernist tradition in America, post-colonial Africa, and India; the effects of industry on 1960s Europe; the increasing suburbanization of America and Europe; and the consequences of today's mass urbanization in Asia, the Middle East, and South America. Far-reaching and penetrating, this volume reflects on the ongoing dialogue between photography and architecture., The relationship between architecture and photography is the focus of this book that features the work of eighteen influential artists, from the 1930s to the present day. Arranged chronologically, the book documents the birth of the skyscraper against the backdrop of the Great Depression; the rise of the modernist tradition in America, post-colonial Africa, and India; the effects of industry on 1960s Europe; the increasing suburbanization of America and Europe; and the consequences of today's mass urbanization in Asia, the Middle East, and South America. Far-reaching and penetrating, this volume reflects on the ongoing dialogue between photography and architecture.

LC Classification NumberTR659