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Sottsass : 700 drawings
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Direct from notebooks kept in Sottsass's personal archives, here is a rare look at a master's design process: 700 Sottsass drawings spanning a rich career in design and architecture from 1936 to the present. The colourful collection includes sketches of buildings, as well as Sottsass' trademark furniture, ceramics, glass, and jewelry . Many of these drawings have never(...)
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Direct from notebooks kept in Sottsass's personal archives, here is a rare look at a master's design process: 700 Sottsass drawings spanning a rich career in design and architecture from 1936 to the present. The colourful collection includes sketches of buildings, as well as Sottsass' trademark furniture, ceramics, glass, and jewelry . Many of these drawings have never(...)
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Direct from notebooks kept in Sottsass's personal archives, here is a rare look at a master's design process: 700 Sottsass drawings spanning a rich career in design and architecture from 1936 to the present. The colourful collection includes sketches of buildings, as well as Sottsass' trademark furniture, ceramics, glass, and jewelry . Many of these drawings have never been published. This volume includes more personal jottings and drawings not directly linked to design or architecture. Taken together they show the enormous span of his creative activity.
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Direct from notebooks kept in Sottsass's personal archives, here is a rare look at a master's design process: 700 Sottsass drawings spanning a rich career in design and architecture from 1936 to the present. The colourful collection includes sketches of buildings, as well as Sottsass' trademark furniture, ceramics, glass, and jewelry . Many of these drawings have never been published. This volume includes more personal jottings and drawings not directly linked to design or architecture. Taken together they show the enormous span of his creative activity.
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January 1900, New York
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Tadao Ando is the most revered Japanese architect at work today. Beloved and admired for his powerful, meditative spaces and his sensual and yet refined use of the materials of the modern trade - wood, steel, concrete, glass - Ando's work resonates with profound intelligence, unpretentious elegance, and an almost palpable sense of harmony. "Tadao Ando at Naoshima: art,(...)
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Tadao Ando is the most revered Japanese architect at work today. Beloved and admired for his powerful, meditative spaces and his sensual and yet refined use of the materials of the modern trade - wood, steel, concrete, glass - Ando's work resonates with profound intelligence, unpretentious elegance, and an almost palpable sense of harmony. "Tadao Ando at Naoshima: art,(...)
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Tadao Ando at Naoshima : art, architecture, nature
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Tadao Ando is the most revered Japanese architect at work today. Beloved and admired for his powerful, meditative spaces and his sensual and yet refined use of the materials of the modern trade - wood, steel, concrete, glass - Ando's work resonates with profound intelligence, unpretentious elegance, and an almost palpable sense of harmony. "Tadao Ando at Naoshima: art, architecture, nature" showcases the latest work in an on going process of building by Tadao Ando at the Naoshima Island Art Complex. Featured here is Ando's recently completed Chichu Art Museum, an underground facility built on the small island in the Inland Sea of Japan. With respect for the landscape and the traditional use of the land as terraced salt fields, Ando adapted the architecture to the topography, by burying much of the complex volume below the ground.
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Tadao Ando is the most revered Japanese architect at work today. Beloved and admired for his powerful, meditative spaces and his sensual and yet refined use of the materials of the modern trade - wood, steel, concrete, glass - Ando's work resonates with profound intelligence, unpretentious elegance, and an almost palpable sense of harmony. "Tadao Ando at Naoshima: art, architecture, nature" showcases the latest work in an on going process of building by Tadao Ando at the Naoshima Island Art Complex. Featured here is Ando's recently completed Chichu Art Museum, an underground facility built on the small island in the Inland Sea of Japan. With respect for the landscape and the traditional use of the land as terraced salt fields, Ando adapted the architecture to the topography, by burying much of the complex volume below the ground.
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January 1900, New York
January 1900, New York
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Frank Lloyd Wright is not only synonymous with architecture, his name is also synonymous with the American house in the twentieth century. In particular, his residential work has been the subject of continuing interest and controversy. Wright's Fallingwater (1935), the seminal masterpiece perched over a waterfall deep in the Pennsylvania highlands, is perhaps the(...)
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Frank Lloyd Wright is not only synonymous with architecture, his name is also synonymous with the American house in the twentieth century. In particular, his residential work has been the subject of continuing interest and controversy. Wright's Fallingwater (1935), the seminal masterpiece perched over a waterfall deep in the Pennsylvania highlands, is perhaps the(...)
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Frank Lloyd Wright : the houses
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Frank Lloyd Wright is not only synonymous with architecture, his name is also synonymous with the American house in the twentieth century. In particular, his residential work has been the subject of continuing interest and controversy. Wright's Fallingwater (1935), the seminal masterpiece perched over a waterfall deep in the Pennsylvania highlands, is perhaps the best-known private house in the history of the world. In fact, Wright's houses-from his Prairie style Robie House (1906) in Chicago, to the Storer (1923) and Freeman (1923) houses in Los Angeles, and Taliesen West (1937) in the Arizona desert-are all touchstones of modern architecture. For the first time, all 289 extant houses are shown here in color photographs. Along with Weintraub's photos and a selection of floor plans and archival images, the book includes text and essays by several Wright scholars.
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Frank Lloyd Wright is not only synonymous with architecture, his name is also synonymous with the American house in the twentieth century. In particular, his residential work has been the subject of continuing interest and controversy. Wright's Fallingwater (1935), the seminal masterpiece perched over a waterfall deep in the Pennsylvania highlands, is perhaps the best-known private house in the history of the world. In fact, Wright's houses-from his Prairie style Robie House (1906) in Chicago, to the Storer (1923) and Freeman (1923) houses in Los Angeles, and Taliesen West (1937) in the Arizona desert-are all touchstones of modern architecture. For the first time, all 289 extant houses are shown here in color photographs. Along with Weintraub's photos and a selection of floor plans and archival images, the book includes text and essays by several Wright scholars.
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November 2005, New York
November 2005, New York
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Richard Neutra's work, his life experience, and his search for modern architecture coincided neatly with the lifespan of the modern movement. He experienced the buoyant struggles of the movement's early years, the heady triumph of its mid-century ascendancy, and the critique it faced in the 1960s and 1970s. His reputation enjoyed a resurgence that was hard to predict(...)
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Richard Neutra's work, his life experience, and his search for modern architecture coincided neatly with the lifespan of the modern movement. He experienced the buoyant struggles of the movement's early years, the heady triumph of its mid-century ascendancy, and the critique it faced in the 1960s and 1970s. His reputation enjoyed a resurgence that was hard to predict(...)
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Richard Neutra and the search for modern architecture
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Richard Neutra's work, his life experience, and his search for modern architecture coincided neatly with the lifespan of the modern movement. He experienced the buoyant struggles of the movement's early years, the heady triumph of its mid-century ascendancy, and the critique it faced in the 1960s and 1970s. His reputation enjoyed a resurgence that was hard to predict when "Richard Neutra and the search for modern architecture" was first published over twenty years ago. In his seminal critical biography of this modernist master, Thomas S. Hines explores the efforts of Neutra and his modernist contemporaries to find the forms that would be most expressive of the twentieth century. In researching this classic of architectural scholarship, Hines enjoyed unparalleled access to the Neutra archives. Its collection of outstanding black-and-white photography includes a remarkable cache of photographs taken by Julius Shulman-the undisputed master of twentieth-century architectural photography-whose work is beautifully featured here. This revised edition of Richard Neutra includes a new introduction by the author.
Richard Neutra and the search for modern architecture
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Richard Neutra's work, his life experience, and his search for modern architecture coincided neatly with the lifespan of the modern movement. He experienced the buoyant struggles of the movement's early years, the heady triumph of its mid-century ascendancy, and the critique it faced in the 1960s and 1970s. His reputation enjoyed a resurgence that was hard to predict when "Richard Neutra and the search for modern architecture" was first published over twenty years ago. In his seminal critical biography of this modernist master, Thomas S. Hines explores the efforts of Neutra and his modernist contemporaries to find the forms that would be most expressive of the twentieth century. In researching this classic of architectural scholarship, Hines enjoyed unparalleled access to the Neutra archives. Its collection of outstanding black-and-white photography includes a remarkable cache of photographs taken by Julius Shulman-the undisputed master of twentieth-century architectural photography-whose work is beautifully featured here. This revised edition of Richard Neutra includes a new introduction by the author.
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February 2006, New York
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Frank Lloyd Wright
Frank Lloyd Wright
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Cette monographie propose un vaste tour d'horizon critique de l'œuvre de Frank Lloyd Wright, l'un des grands maîtres de l'architecture moderne. Richement illustré de photographies des bâtiments les plus connus de Wright, cet ouvrage explore les thèmes clés de l'œuvre de l'architecte, tout en exposant minutieusement les principes qui sous-tendent l'ensemble de ses(...)
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Cette monographie propose un vaste tour d'horizon critique de l'œuvre de Frank Lloyd Wright, l'un des grands maîtres de l'architecture moderne. Richement illustré de photographies des bâtiments les plus connus de Wright, cet ouvrage explore les thèmes clés de l'œuvre de l'architecte, tout en exposant minutieusement les principes qui sous-tendent l'ensemble de ses(...)
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Architecture Monographs
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June 2005, Paris
June 2005, Paris
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Frank Lloyd Wright
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Cette monographie propose un vaste tour d'horizon critique de l'œuvre de Frank Lloyd Wright, l'un des grands maîtres de l'architecture moderne. Richement illustré de photographies des bâtiments les plus connus de Wright, cet ouvrage explore les thèmes clés de l'œuvre de l'architecte, tout en exposant minutieusement les principes qui sous-tendent l'ensemble de ses réalisations. Le texte de Robert Mc Carter analyse le travail de Wright de manière chronologique, en examinant les œuvres maîtresses pour mieux évoquer les créations qui leur sont rattachées. Il explore également les grands thèmes constitutifs de l'œuvre de Wright, que ce dernier lui-même considérait comme revêtant une importance fondamentale pour la compréhension de son architecture : notamment le thème de l'espace et celui de l'expérience spatiale de l'occupant. Mc Carter interroge l'idée de construction et son ordre tectonique cohérent, et examine les relations entre l'architecture de Wright et le paysage.
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Cette monographie propose un vaste tour d'horizon critique de l'œuvre de Frank Lloyd Wright, l'un des grands maîtres de l'architecture moderne. Richement illustré de photographies des bâtiments les plus connus de Wright, cet ouvrage explore les thèmes clés de l'œuvre de l'architecte, tout en exposant minutieusement les principes qui sous-tendent l'ensemble de ses réalisations. Le texte de Robert Mc Carter analyse le travail de Wright de manière chronologique, en examinant les œuvres maîtresses pour mieux évoquer les créations qui leur sont rattachées. Il explore également les grands thèmes constitutifs de l'œuvre de Wright, que ce dernier lui-même considérait comme revêtant une importance fondamentale pour la compréhension de son architecture : notamment le thème de l'espace et celui de l'expérience spatiale de l'occupant. Mc Carter interroge l'idée de construction et son ordre tectonique cohérent, et examine les relations entre l'architecture de Wright et le paysage.
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June 2005, Paris
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A Jeff Wall tapestry? Sol LeWitt paneling? Is this some new Target promotion? Actually, those works aren’t for sale to the general public, but are part of architect Charles Vandenhove’s signature philosophy of integrating other artists’ work into his own designs. And it’s one reason he’s gained such acclaim and fame, whether for a new design (the Théâtre des Abbesses in(...)
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A Jeff Wall tapestry? Sol LeWitt paneling? Is this some new Target promotion? Actually, those works aren’t for sale to the general public, but are part of architect Charles Vandenhove’s signature philosophy of integrating other artists’ work into his own designs. And it’s one reason he’s gained such acclaim and fame, whether for a new design (the Théâtre des Abbesses in(...)
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January 1900, Gent, Amsterdam
January 1900, Gent, Amsterdam
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Charles Vandenhove : art in architecture
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A Jeff Wall tapestry? Sol LeWitt paneling? Is this some new Target promotion? Actually, those works aren’t for sale to the general public, but are part of architect Charles Vandenhove’s signature philosophy of integrating other artists’ work into his own designs. And it’s one reason he’s gained such acclaim and fame, whether for a new design (the Théâtre des Abbesses in Paris) or one of his numerous renovation projects (La Monnaie Theatre in Brussels). Paneling (a Vandenhove hallmark) reworked by LeWitt, Marthe Wéry, and Jacques Charlier; tapestries conceived by Luc Tuymans as well as Jeff Wall; designs by Daniel Buren and Patrick Corillon: Each work of art finds a niche in Vandenhove’s architecture, creating a deliberate interaction between disciplines. Or as he himself puts it: "As at the time of the Renaissance, I would like the work of artists to be in line with mine; I would like the one not to be able to exist without the other."
Charles Vandenhove : art in architecture
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A Jeff Wall tapestry? Sol LeWitt paneling? Is this some new Target promotion? Actually, those works aren’t for sale to the general public, but are part of architect Charles Vandenhove’s signature philosophy of integrating other artists’ work into his own designs. And it’s one reason he’s gained such acclaim and fame, whether for a new design (the Théâtre des Abbesses in Paris) or one of his numerous renovation projects (La Monnaie Theatre in Brussels). Paneling (a Vandenhove hallmark) reworked by LeWitt, Marthe Wéry, and Jacques Charlier; tapestries conceived by Luc Tuymans as well as Jeff Wall; designs by Daniel Buren and Patrick Corillon: Each work of art finds a niche in Vandenhove’s architecture, creating a deliberate interaction between disciplines. Or as he himself puts it: "As at the time of the Renaissance, I would like the work of artists to be in line with mine; I would like the one not to be able to exist without the other."
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January 1900, Gent, Amsterdam
January 1900, Gent, Amsterdam
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Holocaust memorial, Berlin
Holocaust memorial, Berlin
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Inescapably controversial, the Holocaust Memorial Berlin (or, as it’s formally known, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe) is now finished, some 16 years after it was first proposed. Architect Peter Eisenman’s design, which filled a four-football-field-size parcel of land in the middle of Berlin with more than 2,700 concrete slabs, or stelae, was itself hotly(...)
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Inescapably controversial, the Holocaust Memorial Berlin (or, as it’s formally known, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe) is now finished, some 16 years after it was first proposed. Architect Peter Eisenman’s design, which filled a four-football-field-size parcel of land in the middle of Berlin with more than 2,700 concrete slabs, or stelae, was itself hotly(...)
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January 1900, Baden
January 1900, Baden
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Holocaust memorial, Berlin
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Inescapably controversial, the Holocaust Memorial Berlin (or, as it’s formally known, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe) is now finished, some 16 years after it was first proposed. Architect Peter Eisenman’s design, which filled a four-football-field-size parcel of land in the middle of Berlin with more than 2,700 concrete slabs, or stelae, was itself hotly debated, with some complaining that its abstractness, Eisenman’s trademark, made it a monument that evoked no memories. As the debates give way to accounts of the experience of the space, the readers of this book, produced with Eisenman’s cooperation, will be able to compare how successfully the architect’s conception matches the reality. This volume offers a full picture of the process from conceptual and architectural drawings and digital plans to photographs of construction. It holds the narrative of a difficult task, turning “the place of no meaning,” as Eisenman once referred to the site in the hopes of dispelling fears that he was trying to symbolize the deaths that took place during the Holocaust, into a confrontation with the past. Photographs by Hélène Binet and Lukas Wasserman.
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Inescapably controversial, the Holocaust Memorial Berlin (or, as it’s formally known, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe) is now finished, some 16 years after it was first proposed. Architect Peter Eisenman’s design, which filled a four-football-field-size parcel of land in the middle of Berlin with more than 2,700 concrete slabs, or stelae, was itself hotly debated, with some complaining that its abstractness, Eisenman’s trademark, made it a monument that evoked no memories. As the debates give way to accounts of the experience of the space, the readers of this book, produced with Eisenman’s cooperation, will be able to compare how successfully the architect’s conception matches the reality. This volume offers a full picture of the process from conceptual and architectural drawings and digital plans to photographs of construction. It holds the narrative of a difficult task, turning “the place of no meaning,” as Eisenman once referred to the site in the hopes of dispelling fears that he was trying to symbolize the deaths that took place during the Holocaust, into a confrontation with the past. Photographs by Hélène Binet and Lukas Wasserman.
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Rathaus Innsbruck
Rathaus Innsbruck
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A photo-essay by Jordi Bernardó of Dominique Perrault's new City Hall of Innsbruck. Includes an interview with Dominique Perrault and an essay by Heinz Gappmayr.
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A photo-essay by Jordi Bernardó of Dominique Perrault's new City Hall of Innsbruck. Includes an interview with Dominique Perrault and an essay by Heinz Gappmayr.
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June 2005, Barcelona
June 2005, Barcelona
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Rathaus Innsbruck
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A photo-essay by Jordi Bernardó of Dominique Perrault's new City Hall of Innsbruck. Includes an interview with Dominique Perrault and an essay by Heinz Gappmayr.
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A photo-essay by Jordi Bernardó of Dominique Perrault's new City Hall of Innsbruck. Includes an interview with Dominique Perrault and an essay by Heinz Gappmayr.
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June 2005, Barcelona
June 2005, Barcelona
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Gaudi : album cientifico
Gaudi : album cientifico
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Gaudí’s buildings would very soon become one of the most portrayed images on postcards of the period in Barcelona. This book compiles –with scientific rigour– some of those postcards that would be sent around the world with their senders’ messages and the universal message of Gaudian architecture.
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Gaudí’s buildings would very soon become one of the most portrayed images on postcards of the period in Barcelona. This book compiles –with scientific rigour– some of those postcards that would be sent around the world with their senders’ messages and the universal message of Gaudian architecture.
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Gaudi : album cientifico
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Gaudí’s buildings would very soon become one of the most portrayed images on postcards of the period in Barcelona. This book compiles –with scientific rigour– some of those postcards that would be sent around the world with their senders’ messages and the universal message of Gaudian architecture.
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Gaudí’s buildings would very soon become one of the most portrayed images on postcards of the period in Barcelona. This book compiles –with scientific rigour– some of those postcards that would be sent around the world with their senders’ messages and the universal message of Gaudian architecture.
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January 1900, Barcelone
January 1900, Barcelone
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Si la villa Noailles telle que l'a photographiée Jacqueline Salmon, si ces images fixes n'en ont pas moins leur "photogénie", au sens où l'entendaient Germaine Dullac ou Jean Epstein autant que Mallet-Stevens, il ne s'agit pas tant, de la qualité de la prise de vue ou de celle du tirage que de ce qu'y ajoute, en termes temporels autant que narratifs, la dynamique,(...)
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Si la villa Noailles telle que l'a photographiée Jacqueline Salmon, si ces images fixes n'en ont pas moins leur "photogénie", au sens où l'entendaient Germaine Dullac ou Jean Epstein autant que Mallet-Stevens, il ne s'agit pas tant, de la qualité de la prise de vue ou de celle du tirage que de ce qu'y ajoute, en termes temporels autant que narratifs, la dynamique,(...)
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Robert Mallet-Stevens et la villa Noailles à Hyères
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Si la villa Noailles telle que l'a photographiée Jacqueline Salmon, si ces images fixes n'en ont pas moins leur "photogénie", au sens où l'entendaient Germaine Dullac ou Jean Epstein autant que Mallet-Stevens, il ne s'agit pas tant, de la qualité de la prise de vue ou de celle du tirage que de ce qu'y ajoute, en termes temporels autant que narratifs, la dynamique, immédiatement perceptible mais mesurable en années, liée à la ruine - désormais stoppée - des lieux et à la poussée corrélative de la végétation, autant que celle qui procède, par inférence, de la succession même de ces images et de leur enchaînement calculé : du lever du jour à la tombée de la nuit, que signale l'obscurcissement progressif du site et l'allumage en fin de course des luminaires, la promenade (je n'ai pas dit le parcours, dont la notion impliquerait un cheminement réglé) est comme rythmée par la fuite des heures. Mais ceci ne serait rien encore si cette promenade qui aura eu pour fruit une telle séquence d'images, ne renouait, dans son cours apparemment imprévisible, avec ce qui pourrait bien avoir été (j'en forme l'hypothèse au vu de ces photographies) la dynamique propre de l'ouvrage, à le viser dans son développement architectural autant que programmatique. La réussite - si c'est là le mot qui convient : disons l'efficace - de la prise de vues se mesurant à celle (la prise conceptuelle) qu'elle assure sur l'objet, dans son opération même. Ce qui doit s'entendre dans le double sens qu'autorise la syntaxe : soit qu'on ait égard à l'opération qui est le fait de la photographie, ou que l'on prête attention à ce que celle-ci donne à voir du fonctionnement d'un objet dont la ruine agit en fait comme un révélateur.
Robert Mallet-Stevens et la villa Noailles à Hyères
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Si la villa Noailles telle que l'a photographiée Jacqueline Salmon, si ces images fixes n'en ont pas moins leur "photogénie", au sens où l'entendaient Germaine Dullac ou Jean Epstein autant que Mallet-Stevens, il ne s'agit pas tant, de la qualité de la prise de vue ou de celle du tirage que de ce qu'y ajoute, en termes temporels autant que narratifs, la dynamique, immédiatement perceptible mais mesurable en années, liée à la ruine - désormais stoppée - des lieux et à la poussée corrélative de la végétation, autant que celle qui procède, par inférence, de la succession même de ces images et de leur enchaînement calculé : du lever du jour à la tombée de la nuit, que signale l'obscurcissement progressif du site et l'allumage en fin de course des luminaires, la promenade (je n'ai pas dit le parcours, dont la notion impliquerait un cheminement réglé) est comme rythmée par la fuite des heures. Mais ceci ne serait rien encore si cette promenade qui aura eu pour fruit une telle séquence d'images, ne renouait, dans son cours apparemment imprévisible, avec ce qui pourrait bien avoir été (j'en forme l'hypothèse au vu de ces photographies) la dynamique propre de l'ouvrage, à le viser dans son développement architectural autant que programmatique. La réussite - si c'est là le mot qui convient : disons l'efficace - de la prise de vues se mesurant à celle (la prise conceptuelle) qu'elle assure sur l'objet, dans son opération même. Ce qui doit s'entendre dans le double sens qu'autorise la syntaxe : soit qu'on ait égard à l'opération qui est le fait de la photographie, ou que l'on prête attention à ce que celle-ci donne à voir du fonctionnement d'un objet dont la ruine agit en fait comme un révélateur.
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May 2006, Paris
May 2006, Paris
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