Engel, Gerrit, 1965- photographer, author.

Buffalo grain elevators / Gerrit Engel ; mit einem Text von Winfried Nerdinger.

[Place of publication not identified] : [Roland Hepp und Gerrit Engel], [1997]
Köln : Distribution, Buchhandlung Walther König.
Verona : Druck und Bindung, EBS.
©1997

13 pages, 30 unnumbered leaves of plates : chiefly color illustrations ; 30 cm

"The Buffalo Grain Elevators belong to a number of industrial buildings, which, at the beginning of our last century, fascinated and inspired Europe's architectural and artist avantgarde. Without a cultural theoretical background, stripped of all ornaments, these structures expressed a radical functionalism, not known to date. In their powerful and pure forms they heralded the dawn of the new age of modernism. Early black and white photographs of the silos soon belonged to the iconographic quiver of this young movement. It should significantly influence the twentieth century, at the closing of which Gerrit Engel visited these structures, on the shores of Buffalo River. His photographs show the now mostly idle and deserted silos, which have been turned into mature personalities by the traces of time. As a whole life reflects in old people's faces, Engel portrays 'architectural individuals' that shaped the Twentieth Century, and which in turn were shaped themselves"--Photographer's website

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Engel, Gerrit, 1965- Exhibitions.
Engel, Gerrit, 1965-
Architectural photography Exhibitions.
Grain elevators New York (State) Buffalo Exhibitions.
Photographie d'architecture Expositions.
Silos à grains New York (État) Buffalo Expositions.
Architectural photography.
Buildings.
Grain elevators.
Buffalo (N.Y.) Buildings, structures, etc. Exhibitions.
New York (State) Buffalo.

exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs.
Catalogues d'exposition.

Nerdinger, Winfried, author.

Gerrit Engel : Buffalo grain elevators

Location: Library main 207247
Call No.: TR140.E57 B9 1997
Status: Available