Architectural Photography
The artistic directors of the Chicago Architecture Biennial discuss their new Menil Drawing Institute and the role of history in contemporary architecture.
An architect conjures the ghosts of New York’s unbuilt past.
Seton Smith bestows a non-descript quality upon the houses that she photographs.
From the destruction of King George’s likeness at Bowling Green, to the paving over of Native American earthworks, to the debasement of Penn Station and the ongoing disappearing acts of ballparks and churches, it’s becoming more and more clear that American architecture is an architecture of impermanence.
“I try to make my pictures read as plausible stares.”
“What we are looking at in these museum restorations is the society’s superego, what a society thinks of itself, and how it thinks it should be seen by itself. This is what individuals do to a room. Again this same theme. It’s the exteriorization of the soul life or of personal values.”
This recently published box set of three books represents a comprehensive view of Lewis Baltz’s photography of the late ’70s, when he was identified with the influential photography movement New Topography.
An albumen print, titled Rivaulx Abbey, Interior of the Choir, by Philip Henry Delamotte and Joseph Cundall.
Three photographs, titled Colonia 28 Ottobre, Marina di Massa, Colonia Marina di Chiavari, Colonia Marina Calembrone by Gunther Forg, and an installation shot of his work. Part of the Köln portfolio.