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Terms and conditions applyBeyond the Architect's Eye: Photographs and the American Built Environment
Mary N. Woods
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Format: Book
Pages: 376
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Date Published: May 2009
Stock Code: 66992
Binding: Hardback
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Typical architectural photography freezes buildings in an ideal moment and rarely captures what photographer Berenice Abbott called the medium's power to depict 'how the past jostled the present.' In Beyond the Architect's Eye, Mary N. Woods expands on this range of images through a rich analysis that combines art, amateur, and documentary photography, genres usually not considered architectural but that often take the built environment as their subject.
Woods explores how photographers used their built environment to capture the disparate American landscapes prior to World War II, when urban and rural areas grew farther apart in the face of skyscrapers, massive industrialisation, and profound cultural shifts. Central to this study is the work of Alfred Steiglitz, Frances Benjamin Johnston, and Marion Post Wolcott, but Woods weaves a wider narrative to include many others.
In such disparate places as New York City, the rural South, and the burgeoning metropolis of Miami, these unconventional architectural photographers observed buildings as deeply connected to their context. Beyond the Architect's Eye is a groundbreaking study that melds histories of American art, cities, and architecture with visual studies of landscape, photography, and cultural geography.
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