Wayne Thom : photographing the late modern / Emily Bills.

Main entry:

Thom, Wayne, 1933- photographer.

Title & Author:

Wayne Thom : photographing the late modern / Emily Bills.

Publication:

New York, New York : The Monacelli Press, [2020]
©2020

Description:

248 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 29 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-245).
Chapter 1. Visual sculpture -- Chapter 2. The high-rise guy -- Chapter 3. Mirrored Modernism -- Chapter 4. Expanding cities, expanding practice.

Summary:

This monograph chronicles Wayne Thom's photographic practice and the architectural and urban environment in which he worked. Thom's photographs of projects by architecture firms such as William Pereira & Associates, Edward Durell Stone, SOM, Gio Ponti, John Portman, I.M. Pei, and A. Quincy Jones helped establish the idea of cool architectural glamour of the era. Raised in Hong Kong, Thom moved to California in the mid-1960s and trained in the technical craftsmanship of photography, adept at harnessing natural light for both interior and exterior compositions. He soon began working with the figures who would become his clients and benefactors, most importantly William Pereira and A. Quincy Jones, a prolific architect and Dean of the School of Architecture at USC. As Emily Bills assesses Thom's career, she demonstrates that his photography became inseparable from Late Modernism in the popular imagination, a period of architectural production that ran from the late 1960s through the 1980s.

ISBN:

9781580935579
1580935575

Subject:

Thom, Wayne, 1933- Criticism and interpretation.
Architectural photography.
Architecture, Modern 20th century Pictorial works.
Photographie d'architecture.
Architecture 20e siècle Ouvrages illustrés.
Architecture, Modern

Form/genre:

Pictorial works
Illustrated works
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Ouvrages illustrés.

Added entries:

Bills, Emily, writer of added text.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 309147
Call No.: BIB 254431
Status: Available

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