Architecture, photography and the contemporary past
By: edited by Claes Caldenby, Julia Tedroff, Andrej Slávik, Martin Farran-Lee
Contributors: Ernst Cassirer sällskapet; Chalmers tekniska högskola; Göteborgs universitet
Publisher: Art and Theory
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Stockholm
Language: eng
Number of pages: 176
ISBN-13: 9789198157352
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Historiography; Philosophy; Architecture; Architecture and photography; Artistic Photography; Architectural photography
Description: "As traces left behind by the last two hundred years of profound historical change, architecture and photography contribute both to our contemporary skyline and to our image of the past. Their common history thus provides an indispensable background to every discussion of what has been called the contemporary past - that is, to modernity considered as an open problem rather than a closed historical period. Architecture can be seen as a kind of "macromodernity," a social scope where the diverse discourses of modernity have assumed their most large-scale form. In analogy, photographic media constitute a "micromodernity", where the underside of modern society has been registered, identified, classified, and archived. In both cases, we trace out the irregular borderline between the discursive and its opposite, the "material". At this point of intersection, an interesting confrontation between traditional academic historiography and an artistic application of historical perspectives might be staged. What contribution can architecture and photography make to the exploration of our contemporary past?"--Page [4] of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.