Image building : how photography transforms architecture / Therese Lichtenstein, with essay by Marvin Heiferman ; foreword by Terrie Sultan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lichtenstein, Therese, author.

Contributor:

Heiferman, Marvin, writer of supplementary textual content.

Sultan, Terrie, 1952- writer of foreword.

Parrish Art Museum, host institution.

Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, Tenn.), host institution.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parrish Art Museum--Exhibitions.

Parrish Art Museum.

Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, Tenn.)--Exhibitions.

Frist Center for the Visual Arts (Nashville, Tenn.).

Architectural photography--Exhibitions.

Architectural photography.

Buildings--Pictorial works.

Buildings.

Architecture and society.

Genre:

Photobooks.

Exhibition catalogs.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

144 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 31 cm

Place of Publication:

Water Mill, New York : Parrish Art Museum ; Munich : DelMonico Books, an imprint of Prestel, 2018.

Summary:

"Photography has both manipulated and bolstered our appreciation of modern architecture. With beautiful photographs of private and public buildings by Julius Shulman, Candida Hofer, Andreas Gursky, Thomas Struth, and others, this book examines the central and active role that photography plays in defining and perpetuating the iconic nature of buildings and places. This volume shows how different photographers represent the same building, offers commentaries on the American dream, and explores changes in commercial architectural photography. Placing decades-old images alongside modern ones, Image Building depicts the idea of the comfortable middle-class home and the construction of suburbia as an ironic ideal. It presents the ways that public spaces such as libraries, museums, theaters, and office buildings are experienced differently as photographers highlight the social, cultural, psychological, and aesthetic conditions to reveal the layered meanings of place and identity. Looking at how photography shapes and frames our understanding of architecture, this volume offers thought-provoking points of view through an exploration of social and cultural issues."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

What goes up : architectural photography and visual culture / Marvin Heiferman

Architecture after photography / Therese Lichtenstein.

Architecture ater photography / Therese Lichtenstein

Exhibition checklist.

Notes:

"Published in conjunction with the exhibition: Image building: how photography transforms architecture Held at Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY March 18-June 17, 2018 ; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN July 20-October, 28, 2018"--Title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Albert M. Greenfield Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

9783791357294

3791357298

OCLC:

1030950216