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Auteur(s) : Zimmerman, Claire
Titre(s) : Photographic architecture in the twentieth century [Texte imprimé] / Claire Zimmerman
Publication : Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2014
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (X-393 p.) : ill. ; 27 cm
Note(s) : Bibliogr. p. 361-383. Index
"One hundred years ago, architects found in the medium of photography--so good at
representing a building's lines and planes--a necessary way to promote their practices.
It soon became apparent, however, that photography did more than reproduce what it
depicted. It altered both subject and reception, as architecture in the twentieth
century was enlisted as a form of mass communication. Claire Zimmerman reveals how
photography profoundly influenced architectural design in the past century, playing
an instrumental role in the evolution of modern architecture. Her "picture anthropology"
demonstrates how buildings changed irrevocably and substantially through their interaction
with photography, beginning with the emergence of mass-printed photographically illustrated
texts in Germany before World War II and concluding with the postwar age of commercial
advertising. In taking up "photographic architecture," Zimmerman considers two interconnected
topics: first, architectural photography and its circulation; and second, the impact
of photography on architectural design. She describes how architectural photographic
protocols developed in Germany in the early twentieth century, expanded significantly
in the wartime and postwar diaspora, and accelerated dramatically with the advent
of postmodernism. In modern architecture, she argues, how buildings looked and how
photographs made them look overlapped in consequential ways. In architecture and photography,
the modernist concepts that were visible to the largest number over the widest terrain
with the greatest clarity carried the day. This richly illustrated work shows, for
the first time, how new ideas and new buildings arose from the interplay of photography
and architecture--transforming how we see the world and how we act on it."
Sujet(s) : Photographie d'architecture -- 20e siècle
Architecture -- 20e siècle
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780816683345 (hardback). - ISBN 0816683344 (hardback). - ISBN 9780816683352
(pb). - ISBN 0816683352 (pb)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb43900569s
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FRBNF43900569
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