Camera constructs : photography, architecture and the modern city
Higgott, Andrew Ed.
Camera constructs : photography, architecture and the modern city - England Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 2012 - xxii,357p.
CONTENTS
List of Figures ix
Notes on Contributors xvii
Preface xxi
Introduction: Architectural and Photographic Constructs1 Andrew Higgott and Timothy Wray
SECTION I MODERNISM AND THE PUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPH 23
1Frank Yerbury and the Representation of the New Andrew Higgott
2Le Corbusier and the Representational Function of Photography35 Andrzej Piotrowski
3 The Photo-dependent, the Photogenic and the Unphotographable: How our Understanding of the Modern Movement has been Conditioned by Photography Peter Blundell Jones61
4 'At Home'with the Eameses Rachel Stevenson73
5 Private Vistas and a Shared Ideal: Photography, Lifestyle and the West German Bungalow Carola Ebert91
6A Covert Critique of the Architectural Photograph: The Editorial Practice of Andrew Mead Robin Wilson105
SECTION II ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY RE-IMAGINED125
7 Haunted Halls of Mirrors: Photography and the Phenomenology of Emotional Space Timothy Wray
8 Photography and the Subject of Architecture Edward Whittaker135
9'The Synoptic View': Aerial Photographs and Twentieth-Century Planning Tanis Hinchcliffe147
10Negotiating the City Through Google Street View Ben Campkin and Rebecca Ross 159
11Transforming Ideas into Pictures: Model Photography and Modern Architecture Davide Deriu179
12 Worlds Collide: Reality to Model to Reality195 Mark Morris
SECTION III INTERPRETATIVE CONSTRUCTS 211
13 Our Man in Havana: Walker Evans' Photographs for The Crime of Cuba Mary N. Woods
14 Leafing Through Los Angeles: Edward Ruscha's Photographic Books Steven Jacobs223
15 Looking for the Affect of History in the Photographic Work of Bernd and Hilla Becher lan Wiblin237
16 Order Out of Chaos: Josef Koudelka's hotographic Constructs Timothy Wray
17. Slow Spaces Willam Firebrace247
18 Material Immateriality: Moholy-Nagy's Search for Space Ivana Wingham 257
19. Framing the View: The Real and the Imaginary in Photographic Depictions
of the Architectural Work of Mies van der Rohe and Eileen Gray 269
Rosamund Diamond
20. Memorability as Image: The NewBrutalism and Photography 283
Andrew Higgott
21. In Defence of Pictorial Space: Stereoscopic Photography and
Architecture in the Nineteenth Century 295
Richard Difford
22.Stereoscopy and the Architecture of Visual Space313
Penelope Haralambidou
23. Photography as an Agent of Architectural Proposition and Provocation Nat Chard 331
Index 353
9781409421450
720.105 / HIG
Camera constructs : photography, architecture and the modern city - England Ashgate Publishing Ltd. 2012 - xxii,357p.
CONTENTS
List of Figures ix
Notes on Contributors xvii
Preface xxi
Introduction: Architectural and Photographic Constructs1 Andrew Higgott and Timothy Wray
SECTION I MODERNISM AND THE PUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPH 23
1Frank Yerbury and the Representation of the New Andrew Higgott
2Le Corbusier and the Representational Function of Photography35 Andrzej Piotrowski
3 The Photo-dependent, the Photogenic and the Unphotographable: How our Understanding of the Modern Movement has been Conditioned by Photography Peter Blundell Jones61
4 'At Home'with the Eameses Rachel Stevenson73
5 Private Vistas and a Shared Ideal: Photography, Lifestyle and the West German Bungalow Carola Ebert91
6A Covert Critique of the Architectural Photograph: The Editorial Practice of Andrew Mead Robin Wilson105
SECTION II ARCHITECTURE AND THE CITY RE-IMAGINED125
7 Haunted Halls of Mirrors: Photography and the Phenomenology of Emotional Space Timothy Wray
8 Photography and the Subject of Architecture Edward Whittaker135
9'The Synoptic View': Aerial Photographs and Twentieth-Century Planning Tanis Hinchcliffe147
10Negotiating the City Through Google Street View Ben Campkin and Rebecca Ross 159
11Transforming Ideas into Pictures: Model Photography and Modern Architecture Davide Deriu179
12 Worlds Collide: Reality to Model to Reality195 Mark Morris
SECTION III INTERPRETATIVE CONSTRUCTS 211
13 Our Man in Havana: Walker Evans' Photographs for The Crime of Cuba Mary N. Woods
14 Leafing Through Los Angeles: Edward Ruscha's Photographic Books Steven Jacobs223
15 Looking for the Affect of History in the Photographic Work of Bernd and Hilla Becher lan Wiblin237
16 Order Out of Chaos: Josef Koudelka's hotographic Constructs Timothy Wray
17. Slow Spaces Willam Firebrace247
18 Material Immateriality: Moholy-Nagy's Search for Space Ivana Wingham 257
19. Framing the View: The Real and the Imaginary in Photographic Depictions
of the Architectural Work of Mies van der Rohe and Eileen Gray 269
Rosamund Diamond
20. Memorability as Image: The NewBrutalism and Photography 283
Andrew Higgott
21. In Defence of Pictorial Space: Stereoscopic Photography and
Architecture in the Nineteenth Century 295
Richard Difford
22.Stereoscopy and the Architecture of Visual Space313
Penelope Haralambidou
23. Photography as an Agent of Architectural Proposition and Provocation Nat Chard 331
Index 353
9781409421450
720.105 / HIG