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Photography and architecture in the modern age

Title: Photography and architecture in the modern age / edited by Alona Pardo and Elias Redstone.
Publication: London : Barbican Art Gallery ; Munich : Prestel, ©2014.

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Description

279 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 27 cm

Summary

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.

Alternative Title

Constructing worlds

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Note

On the occasion of an exhibition held at Barbican Art Gallery, London, September 25, 2014 - January 11, 2015.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-277).

Call Number

MFW 15-1160

ISBN

9783791381152
3791381156

OCLC

893407097

Title

Photography and architecture in the modern age / edited by Alona Pardo and Elias Redstone.

Imprint

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-277).

Added Author

Pardo, Alona.

Redstone, Elias.

Barbican Art Gallery, host institution.

Cover Title

Constructing worlds

Research Call Number

MFW 15-1160

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