The Photographic Representation Of One Building

You are required to discuss a work by a 20th or 21st century artist, photographer, designer, architect, film-maker, philosopher or writer and show how this work reflects, contradicts or extends theories of and attitudes to visual culture current at the time of its making.

For the historical photographer part of my assignment, I choose photographer Edward S. Curtis. The reason I decided to choice Mr. Curtis and his works is that he help preserve and document accurate depictions of Native Americans at a time when most of society had only a limited knowledge of what Native Americans culture looked like. In addition, nearly all of his work from an artistic standpoint looks breathtaking; almost like a painting expert, it is photography. Therefore, the next the paragraph I will discussed his works, message in his work, and my thoughts on them.

For both interior and exterior photos, be sure to focus on certain attributes of the buildings. For example the colors used in the make-up of the building, style, the age of the material, and its originality. Do not make careless mistakes, remember to log each section of photos in your photo log. The importance of keeping a photo log and field book while doing research is important because you do not want to leave out any important information and fieldwork is only Phrase I of the final

Question 1. Choose an architect or practice whose work is covered by or relevant to this course and discuss critically one or more of their design projects or drawings or urban proposals as precedent case-studies. Selectively situate this work in relation to their body of work, and against the practices and concerns of the period. Focus on the architectural qualities of a specific key aspect of the design of the projects. Selectively consider how they might relate to the historical situation, cultural values, theoretical concerns and design practices of the time. This may involve a selective analysis of compositional design practices, material fabrication production and the experiential reception of built outcomes of the projects.

The first photograph I am going to discuss is photo of Ellery Shufelt with his children in Albany County, New York. Arthur Rothstein took this photograph in 1937, which was when the Great Depression was taking place in the United States. This photograph depicts many of these formal elements and techniques such as, framing, lighting, composition, and space to help portray the true meaning of the image. Arthur Rothstein uses the technique known as composition, which can be defined as the organization of the photograph by inserting elements in particular places and sizes. This assumption can be made because Rothstein places the Ellery Shufelt and his children in specific areas of the photograph to help capture an emotion or option about how people live and work American society at this time. Also, the framing and position of the door and chair outlines the photograph asymmetrically for the viewer. The door offsets the image by dividing the image with a vertical line. This basically crops the photograph making the viewer focus on the father and his children rather than the background itself. In addition, the level the camera intensifies the feeling and framing by making you feel eye level with the subjects. The use of framing allowed the photograph to make you focus and control how you perceive the image.

This quote shows how much progress has really been made in such a short amount of time and the accomplishments of the architects/builders are much showcased through this

Nowadays, as modern societies provide an almost fixed time-table for humans to operate in various fields, we have far less freedom regarding our natural and momentary impulses than in the past. In other words, "we are increasingly detaching ourselves from organic and functional periodicity which is dictated by nature, and replacing it by mechanical periodicity which is dictated by the schedule, the calender, and the clock"(Jackson, 1994). The influence of this modern style of living on our sense of time can be seen on our relationship to every object we interact including buildings and architectural works.

John Szarkowski, a photographer and director of the Department of Photography of the Museum of Modern Art. Not only that, but based on the reading he’s also critic. Throughout the years Szarkowski had influence many American photographers, a forward thinker person who at that time had control of the art institution change photographer’s point of view. He taught American photographers how to look at photographs, from proving representations of the world, to making a story real, and to unique angles and perspective through photography.

Frank L W is notable for being a modern architect. “His paradoxical nature inspired as much love as contempt and made him an easy target.” * “Wright was recognized in 1991 by the American Institute of Architects as "the greatest American architect of all time".[1]”

“Grand Central Station. New York City” and “Notre Dame De Paris”. I’ll include images at the end of the essay. The Grand Central Station image has an average exposure, with the focus on the person in white. The lighting is perfectly set up so that the person dressed in white is being lit up while no one else is. The composition has rhythm with all the people walking around, and leading lines with the light shining down. “Notre Dame De Paris” is focused on the gargoyle, with the back part lighter and the front dark. The composition follows rule of thirds, and

Mies van der Rohe is one of the most prominent figures in modernist architectural history, the man who popularised some of the most influential phrases of the era, e.g. “less is more”, and strove to push his ideas and philosophies, not just on what he thought a building should be, but of what he thought architecture itself was. He changed the cityscape of America, showing the world a style that was simple and elegant, with such a controlled palette of expressions that shone through in its geometric beauty.

Le Corbusier, inspired by modern painting, the floating floor and transparency in his design is an echo of what was modern painting. In 1915, he drew six reinforced concrete pillars that held three horizontal slabs, which were connected by a staircase (fig.1). Ferroconcrete in his hand was like a sculpture’s clay used to express his ideas. Le Corbusier transmuted the concrete skeleton developed by engineer to a means of architectural expression that no one before him had tried.

Different architects have different styles because they are trying to get at different things. Architecture is not just about making something beautiful anymore, it is about trying to get across a set of ideas about how we inhabit space. Two of the most famous architects of the twentieth century, one from each side, the early part and the later part up until today each designed a museum with money donated by the Guggenheim foundation. One of these is in New York City, it was designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The other is in bilbao, Spain, and it was designed by Frank Geary. My purpose of this paper is to interrogate each of these buildings, glorious for different reasons, to show how each architect was expressing their own style.

Eileen Gray spent most of her designing life in France and was influenced greatly by a veriety of designers and architects. She found her self indulged in the art of Toulouse-Lautrec, Cezanne, Van Gogh, Gaughin, Seurat, and Bonnaard. Eileen Gray admired Le Corbusier’s Five Points

Architecture can be viewed with two different types of properties. Properties that can be seen like shapes, their composition, the spaces they create and, the colours and textures that make up their appearance. These properties are considered to be visual while other properties are considered to be abstract. These properties can only be described using words; the meanings behind the architecture and the stories that can be told about it. The context, its cultural background and its function also affects how we view architecture. The question is, what