Photographic Architecture in the Twentieth Century

摘要

That there is a relationship between photography and architecture is evident. The question of what the nature of that relationship might be is altogether more complex and open to many different interpretations and responses. The two terms-separately complex and each encompassing practices, artefacts and discourses-when placed next to each other establish connections which can sometimes seem entirely co-dependent, or in which, at other times, one discipline or other seems to take the lead. On the spectrum of approaches, at one end are those that focus on the ways in which architects use the photographic image to depict buildings (photography serving architecture); at the other end are those which consider how photographers use architecture as subject matter (architecture serving photography). Both ends of the spectrum are admirably represented by the two projects under review here.