| Positions: Photography of Architecture, City and Landscape in the Netherlands Contributor(s): Franke, Simon (Editor), Jolles, Allard (Editor), Vollaard, Piet (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9056626523 ISBN-13: 9789056626525 Publisher: Nai010 Publishers OUR PRICE: $76.00 Product Type: Hardcover Published: August 2010 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | Subjects & Themes - Architectural & Industrial - Photography | Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - General |
| Dewey: 770 |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 11.8" W x 9.5" (3.05 lbs) 220 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Positions addresses the ascent of architectural photography as a discipline, and the changing role of the architectural photographer. Once merely charged with providing a purely documentary representation of a building, the architectural photographer now offers a personal interpretation of the work of the architect, urban planner or landscape designer--what the editors of this volume term "commissioned interpretive photography," which raises the question of what "working on assignment" might mean. The common factor that unites the photographers presented here--Theo Baart, Bas Princen, Ralph K mena, Jannes Linders, Jeroen Musch and Hans Werlemann--is that each of them has brought a highly personal perspective to bear upon their approach to their commissions, and that each of their oeuvres has had a direct impact on contemporary architecture and urban planning. Positions examines the photographer's emancipation from documentary constraint to creative agency. A "selective historiography" provides an overview of the development of architectural photography on commission, and further texts describe methods of collaboration between photographer and architect. |
