People:

Aldo Rossi (photographer)

Title:

Group of views of architecture from Aldo Rossi's trips to Italy, France, Corsica, Greece, United States and unspecified countries

Date:

1980s-1990s

Description:

Group of 109 Polaroid photographs made by Aldo Rossi with some presented in the exhibition 'Luigi Ghirri - Aldo Rossi. Things Which Are Only Themselves' held at the CCA in 1996. The photographs represent several scenes from Rossi's travels in different countries: building façades, sacred images, billboards, houses from a Shaker village, baroque façades of churches (in Lecce, Italy), shops, street scenes, lakes, ports, showcases and furniture. Rossi's photography shows the interest he shares with photographer Luigi Ghirri in the belief in the autonomous eye of the photographer and in the potential of that eye to reveal something new to the architect. Ghirri sees in Rossi's Polaroids a "concealed passion, the 'secret' images of the architect, [...] puzzles that are solved with the heart". And according to his definition of photography, "a tangle of monuments, lights, thoughts, objects, moments and metaphors forming the landscape we are searching for in our minds... as would the points of an imaginary compass, which indicates a possible direction".

Form:
photographs

Quantity / Object type:
82 photograph(s)

Technique and media:

Colour polaroid photographs

Dimensions:

comps.: 7,9 x 7,9 cm comps.: 7,3 x 9,1 cm sheet (smallest): 9,3 x 8,8 cm sheets (largest): 10,3 x 10,1 cm

Reference number:

PH1996:0069:001-109

Point of View:

aerial views
exterior views
interior views

Inscription:

inscribed, numbered and dated

Location:

United States

Subject:

architecture
engineering
sculpture

Subject Descriptive Terms:

ruins
tower (single built work)
trees
people
doors
houses
windows
chairs
bench
balconies
street lighting units
railings
vase
bases (object components)
parking lot
brick walls
roofs
shutters
terraces
wood (plant material)
canal
bridge (built work)
buildings
façades
shafts (column components)
arcades
graffiti
utility poles
bicycles
fences
streets
harbour
stone wall
columns (architectural elements)
automobiles
churches
mountains
cornices
arches
bell tower
monuments
entablatures
pediments
lake
pipes (conduits)
curtains
wall clock
high-rise buildings
plants (vegetation)
barn
fire escape
bed (furniture)
table
carpet
pedestals
restaurants
boats
cities
lighthouses
tables
nave
painting (visual work)
shops
straw (plant material)
crucifix
dormers
entrance doors
candles
bottles
cranes
chain link fence
basilica
friezes (entablature components)
globe (cartographic sphere)
yard
bushes
cardboard
sand
billboards
apartment
posters
bakery
stone buildings
capital (column component)
arena
cobble street
sidewalks
weathervane
masts
planters (containers)
sandals
monk
books
belt (costume accessory)
raincoat
chimneys
window bars (building materials)
cushion
hotel
blinds (coverings)
words
niches
vines
water
grass (plant)
trucks
concrete
refrigerator
architrave cornice
boxes
frame
letters (signs)
model
crossing
Corinthian (architectural style) pilasters
ogee arch
flowers (plants)
domed building
butcher shop
wall paper

Credit line:
Collection Centre Canadien d'Architecture/
Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montréal

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