Architecture, photography and the contemporary past / edited by Claes Caldenby, Julia Tedroff, Andrej Slávik, Martin Farran-Lee.

Stockholm : Art and Theory, [2014]
©2014

176 pages : illustrations (some color), facsimiles ; 28 cm

"As traces left behind by the last two hundred years of profound historical change, architecture and photography contribute both to our contemporary skyline and to our image of the past. Their common history thus provides an indispensable background to every discussion of what has been called the contemporary past - that is, to modernity considered as an open problem rather than a closed historical period. Architecture can be seen as a kind of "macromodernity," a social scope where the diverse discourses of modernity have assumed their most large-scale form. In analogy, photographic media constitute a "micromodernity", where the underside of modern society has been registered, identified, classified, and archived. In both cases, we trace out the irregular borderline between the discursive and its opposite, the "material". At this point of intersection, an interesting confrontation between traditional academic historiography and an artistic application of historical perspectives might be staged. What contribution can architecture and photography make to the exploration of our contemporary past?"--Page 4 of cover

9789198157352 (paperback)
9198157353 (paperback)

Architecture Philosophy.
Architecture Historiography.
Architecture and photography.
Architectural photography.
Photography, Artistic.
Architecture Philosophie.
Architecture Historiographie.
Architecture et photographie.
Photographie d'architecture.
Photographie artistique.
art photography.
Architectural theory.

Caldenby, Claes, 1946- editor.
Tedroff, Julia, editor.
Slávik, Andrej, editor.
Farran-Lee, Martin, editor.
Ernst Cassirer sällskapet, sponsoring body.
Chalmers tekniska högskola, sponsoring body.
Göteborgs universitet, sponsoring body.

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