Main entry:

Gautherot, Marcel.

Title & Author:

Building Brasilia / photographs by Marcel Gautherot, Kenneth Frampton, with contributions by Sergio Burgi and Samuel Titan, Jr.

Publication:

London ; New York : Thames & Hudson, 2010.

Description:

189 pages : illustrations, map ; 31 cm

Notes:
"This publication is dedicated to the simultaneous celebration of Brasilia's fiftieth anniversary and the centennial of the birth of Marcel Gautherot (1910-1996). By now, the city of Brasilia needs no introduction; this book introduces Gautherot, the French photographer whose extensive body of work is mostly focused on Brazil, and whose images of Brasilia deserve pride of place."--Page 9.
Includes bibliographical references.
Machine generated contents note: I. Photography and Architecture: Marcel Gautherot in Brasilia / Sergio Burgi -- II. Construct and Construction: Brasilia's Development / Kenneth Frampton -- III. Plates -- IV. Biographical Note / Samuel Titan, Jr. -- V. Chronology / Mario Beatrz C. Cappello.

Summary:

An architect by training and an enthusiast of Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, photographer Marcel Gautherot was close to an elite group of Brazilian modernist architects such as Oscar Niemeyer and Roberto Burle Marx. Aesthetic and political affinities made him Niemeyer's photographer of choice, and Gautherot had privileged access to all stages of the building of Brasilia, Brazil's new capital and a landmark of modernist architecture and urbanism. This book brings together for the first time a large corpus of Gautherot's work on the city, selected out of the 3,000 photographs now in the collection of the Moreira Salles Foundation in Rio de Janeiro. Gautherot's sharp, precise, almost clinical eye captures Brasilia as both promising and ominous, tremendous and fragile, heroic and problematic.

ISBN:

9780500515426
0500515425

Subject:

Gautherot, Marcel.
Photographers France Biography.
Architecture Brazil Brasília (Distrito Federal) History.
Architecture Brazil Brasília (Distrito Federal) History Pictorial works.
Architectural photography Brazil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
Architecture and photography Brazil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
Photographes France Biographies.
Architecture Brésil Brasília (Distrito Federal) Histoire.
Architecture Brésil Brasília (Distrito Federal) Histoire Ouvrages illustrés.
Photographie d'architecture Brésil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
Architecture et photographie Brésil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
Architectural photography
Architecture
Architecture and photography
Photographers
Brazil Brasília (Distrito Federal)
France

Form/genre:

Biographies
History
Illustrated works

Added entries:

Frampton, Kenneth.
Burgi, Sergio.
Titan Jr., Samuel (Titan Junior), 1970-

Holdings:

Location: Library main 271276
Call No.: BIB 204267
Status: Available