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Image building : how photography transforms architecture

Title: Image building : how photography transforms architecture / Therese Lichtenstein, with essay by Marvin Heiferman ; foreword by Terrie Sultan.
Author: Lichtenstein, Therese
Publication: Water Mill, New York : Parrish Art Museum ; Munich : DelMonico Books, an imprint of Prestel, 2018.

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Description

144 pages : illustrations (some colour); 31 cm

Summary

"Photography has both manipulated and bolstered our appreciation of modern architecture. With beautiful photographs of private and public buildings by Julius Shulman, Candida Hofer, 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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Genre/Form

Photobooks.
Exhibition catalogs.
Pictorial works.

Note

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition: Image building: how photography transforms architecture Held at Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY March 18-June 17, 2018 ; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN July 20-October, 28, 2018"--Title page verso.

Call Number

JQG 18-490

ISBN

9783791357294
3791357298

LCCN

2017953071

OCLC

1030950216

Author

Lichtenstein, Therese, author.

Title

Image building : how photography transforms architecture / Therese Lichtenstein, with essay by Marvin Heiferman ; foreword by Terrie Sultan.

Publisher

Water Mill, New York : Parrish Art Museum ; Munich : DelMonico Books, an imprint of Prestel, 2018.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Added Author

Heiferman, Marvin, writer of supplementary textual content.

Sultan, Terrie, 1952- writer of foreword.

Parrish Art Museum, host institution.

Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, Tenn.), host institution.

Research Call Number

JQG 18-490

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