Photography and Architecture, 1839-1939

Name: Photography and Architecture, 1839-1939
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ISBN: 9780262161015

ISBN-10: 026216101X

ISBN-13: 9780262161015

Edition: Reprint

Authors: Richard Pare, Phyllis Lambert

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A study of world architecture as seen through the eyes of ninety great masters of the camera, this magnificently produced book includes some of the earliest and finest photographs of architectural subjects. It takes us from the Paris of Atget and Baldus to Beato's imperial Japan, and from August Sander's vision of Germany between the Wars to Atlanta after Sherman's march. Among the other photographers represented in the book's 148 plates are Talbot, Fenton, and F. H. Evans in Britain; Macpherson and Ponti in Italy; Salzman in Jerusalem; Chamay in Mexico; and Watkins, Stieglitz, Steichen, Abbot, and O'Sullivan in the United States. Phyllis Lambert's introduction discusses the importance of…

Book details

List price: $18.75
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 7/18/1985
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 282
Size: 12.25" wide x 10.25" long x 1.50" tall
Weight: 3.938
Language: English

Richard Pare is Curator of Photographs at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.