When does architectural photography flatter to deceive?

摘要

The AJ moved into new offices near London's 'Silicon Roundabout'over Christmas, prompting some rooting through the archive. Two issues from 1979 were particularly striking. The cover of AJ 25.07.79 shows a selection of black and white architectural photographs overprinted with the damning title: "The Craven Image'. Inside, an essay by Tom Picton kicked against the 'necrophilic excellence'of mainstream architectural photography, stripped of signs of occupancy, which 'march across the pages of architectural magazines like tombstones in a graveyard'.