Reading Notes-pg. 179-183: Architecture

Architecture and Urban Landscapes

• indirect portraits-created of the people when you take pictures of the buildings and homes in your neighborhoods, towns, and cities
• architectural photography is a great way to examine the formal aspects of design
• because through elements of art and principles people created the buildings that make up our cities and towns
• Looking Back
• towards the beginning of photography, architecture was a popular subject for photographers
• two reasons
• early films were really slow
• buildings were stationary
• Charles Negre (1840s)-began to use photography to create studies for his paintings.
• Frederick H. Evans (1890s-1920s)-considered one of the greatest architectural photographers in the history of medium.
• Eugene Atget (1890s)-photographed Paris and its surrounding towns and produced about 10,000 images.
• Photographing the Built Environment
• Thinking Artistically
• architecture photography can be an exploration of abstract images
• you can use line to lead the viewer's eye through the photo
• a structure's setting is an important consideration when composing an architectural image
• "personality" - relationship between building and the things around it
• pattern-the repetition of any of the elements of art
• usually a part of every image; we should learn to look for them