German Photo Book Award 2018/19 Bronze
International contemporary “starchitecture”
Photographed by the award-winning artist Marcel Chassot
With buildings by Frank Gehry, Norman Foster, Daniel Libeskind, Zaha Hadid, Helmut Jahn, Mario Botta, Herzog & de Meuron, David Chipperfield, Peter Zumthor, Renzo Piano, Santiago Calatrava, and many more
64,00 £
[UK]
Marcel Chassot
Architecture and Photography — Amazement as Visual Culture
Assembling buildings designed by modern star architects from Tadao Andō to Peter Zumthor, this photography book is a total-work-of-art: its felicitous interplay of brilliant architectural photography, exquisite book design, and texts approaching the subject from the angle of the history of thought places Marcel Chassot’s imagery within European cultural history.
description
Once it plunges into Chassot’s architectural photography, the eye feasts on a wealth of scenes from the repertoire of outstanding international contemporary architecture. Each of the photographs aptly captures a prototypical subject. Colouring, the arrangement of lines, lighting, as well as the photographic means are employed with such precision that viewers feel as if they are in a visual laboratory where photography interprets architecture in its particular language. In his essay the author Wolfgang Meisenheimer looks into the fundamental principles of Chassot’s photographic world view and distinguishes between three layers of thought in which the work is rooted: the Euclidian orders, echoes of the modern philosophy of the lived body, and the legacy of Cubism from the beginnings of modern painting.
press commentaries
Seine Bilder zeigen berühmte Gebäude aus unterschiedlichsten Perspektiven: frisch, bunt, abstrakt.
Canon Foto
Details
In stock
Includes an essay by Wolfgang Meisenheimer
374 pages, 256 colour illustrations
23.5 x 33 cm, hardcover with dust jacket
374 pages, 256 colour illustrations
23.5 x 33 cm, hardcover with dust jacket
ISBN: 978-3-7774-3006-5
Keywords
Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, Coop Himmelb (l) au, Renzo Piano, Peter Zumthor, Photography, Architecture, Contemporary Art, 21st Century, architectural photography
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