CAMERA CONSTRUCTS. PHOTOGRPAHY, ARCHITECTURE AND THE MODERN CITY

HIGGOTT.A AND WRAY. T ( EDITORS)

ISBN 10: 1409421457 / ISBN 13: 9781409421450

Published by ASHGATE, UK, 2012

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: CAMERA CONSTRUCTS. PHOTOGRPAHY, ARCHITECTURE AND THE MODERN CITY
• Publisher: ASHGATE, UK
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1409421457
• ISBN 13: 9781409421450
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No D/W.
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Synopsis

Photography and architecture have a uniquely powerful resonance - architectural form provides the camera with the subject for some of its most compelling imagery, while photography profoundly influences how architecture is represented, imagined and produced. Camera Constructs is the first book to reflect critically on the varied interactions of the different practices by which photographers, artists, architects, theorists and historians engage with the relationship of the camera to architecture, the city and the evolution of Modernism. The title thus on the one hand opposes the medium of photography and the materiality of construction - but on the other can be read as saying that the camera invariably constructs what it depicts: the photograph is not a simple representation of an external reality, but constructs its own meanings and reconstructs its subjects. Twenty-three essays by a wide range of historians and theorists are grouped under the themes of ’Modernism and the Published Photograph’, ’Architecture and the City Re-imagined’, ’Interpretative Constructs’ and ’Photography in Design Practices.’ They are preceded by an Introduction that comprehensively outlines the subject and elaborates on the diverse historical and theoretical contexts of the authors’ approaches. Camera Constructs provides a rich and highly original analysis of the relationship of photography to built form from the early modern period to the present day.

About the Author

Andrew Higgott, the University of East London, UK. Timothy Wray is an architect, photographer and writer based in Berlin.