Architecture Lecture

• big picture, detail, interior
• Architectural photgraphs are indirect
• Materials, style and scale rpovide clues about who the people were and what their lives were like
• early films were notoriously shlow and needed hours of exposure for one image
• architecture was a perfect subject because:

-doesn't move
-change angles
-designs of buildings
-same elements and principles are in architecture as well as in photographs

• Frederick H. Evans

-one of the greatest architecture photographers in the history of architectural photography
-large part of work focused on cathedrals in London
-depicted emotion with the use of light
-"try for a record of emotion rather than a piece photography"

• worked primarily in platinum papers
• duringWWI, platinum was used exclusively for making bombs and munitions
• gave up photograpy when platinum was to hard to get

• Ezra Stoller (1915-2004)

-was an architect than became interested in photography
-used mostly line, shape, and form

• focus on the full-view of the space and the emotions connected to it, like a portrait
• tells a story
• focus on the details of a building, as an exploration of abstract images
• communicate the PERSONALITY o the space and its RELATIONSHIP to its surroundings
• in architectural photography, patterns dominate almost every part of the image