Nineteenth-Century Photographs and Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nineteenth-Century Photographs and Architecture write by Micheline Nilsen. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Nineteenth-Century Photographs and Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eschewing the limiting idea that nineteenth-century architecture photography merely reflects functionality, the objective of this collection is to reflect the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural concerns of the time. The essays hold appeal for social and cultural historians, as well as those with an interest in the fields of art history, urban geography, history of travel and tourism. Nineteenth-century photographers captured what could be seen and what they wanted to be seen. Their images informed of exploration, progress, heritage, and destruction. Architecture was a staple subject for the first generation of photographers as it patiently tolerated the long exposures of the early processes. During its formative decades photography responded to evolutionary cultural forces of market and artistic production. Photographs of architecture reflected a specific political or social context modulated through individual points of view. For this reason, the examination of each photographic image as a primary visual document and an aesthetic object rather than a technical milestone on a chronological trajectory affords a richer multi-faceted approach to the extensive and complex corpus of photographs taken by photographers all over the world. This project acknowledges the importance of technique in the early decades of photography but focuses on the thematic content of the material. It places the photography of architecture in an international context under the contemporary critical lens sharpened by theoretical and cultural examinations of the topic.
Documenting History, Charting Progress, and Exploring the World
Documenting History, Charting Progress, and Exploring the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Documenting History, Charting Progress, and Exploring the World write by Micheline Nilsen. This book was released on 2010. Documenting History, Charting Progress, and Exploring the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Catalog to accompany an exhibition held September 5 - October 31, 2010 in the Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame.
Nineteenth-Century Photographs and Architecture
Nineteenth-Century Photographs and Architecture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Nineteenth-Century Photographs and Architecture write by Micheline Nilsen. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Nineteenth-Century Photographs and Architecture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Eschewing the limiting idea that nineteenth-century architecture photography merely reflects functionality, the objective of this collection is to reflect the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural concerns of the time. The essays hold appeal for social and cultural historians, as well as those with an interest in the fields of art history, urban geography, history of travel and tourism. Nineteenth-century photographers captured what could be seen and what they wanted to be seen. Their images informed of exploration, progress, heritage, and destruction. Architecture was a staple subject for the first generation of photographers as it patiently tolerated the long exposures of the early processes. During its formative decades photography responded to evolutionary cultural forces of market and artistic production. Photographs of architecture reflected a specific political or social context modulated through individual points of view. For this reason, the examination of each photographic image as a primary visual document and an aesthetic object rather than a technical milestone on a chronological trajectory affords a richer multi-faceted approach to the extensive and complex corpus of photographs taken by photographers all over the world. This project acknowledges the importance of technique in the early decades of photography but focuses on the thematic content of the material. It places the photography of architecture in an international context under the contemporary critical lens sharpened by theoretical and cultural examinations of the topic.
Architecture, Travellers and Writers
Architecture, Travellers and Writers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture, Travellers and Writers write by Anne Hultzsch. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Architecture, Travellers and Writers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Does the way in which buildings are looked at, and made sense of, change over the course of time? How can we find out about this? By looking at a selection of travel writings spanning four centuries, Anne Hultzsch suggests that it is language, the description of architecture, which offers answers to such questions. The words authors use to transcribe what they see for the reader to re-imagine offer glimpses at modes of perception specific to one moment, place and person. Hultzsch constructs an intriguing patchwork of local and often fragmentary narratives discussing texts as diverse as the 17th-century diary of John Evelyn, Daniel Defoe's Robinson Crusoe (1719) and an 1855 art guide by Swiss art historian Jacob Burckhardt. Further authors considered include 17th-century collector John Bargrave, 18th-century novelist Tobias Smollett, poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, critic John Ruskin as well as the 20th-century architectural historian Nikolaus Pevsner. Anne Hultzsch teaches at the Bartlett School of Architecture, University College London.
Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs
Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs write by Micheline Nilsen. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Revealing that nineteenth-century photography goes beyond the functional to reflect the aesthetic, intellectual, and cultural concerns of the time, this study proposes that each photographic image of architecture be studied both as a primary visual document and an object of aesthetic inquiry. This multi-faceted approach drives Architecture in Nineteenth-Century Photographs: Essays on Reading a Collection. Despite three decades of post-colonial, post-structuralist and gender-conscious criticism, the study of architectural photography continues to privilege technical virtuosity. This volume offers a thematic exploration of the material, and a socio-historical examination that allows consideration of questions that have not been addressed comprehensively before in a single publication. Themes include exoticism and "armchair tourism"; the absence of women from architectural photography; the role of photographs as commodities; vernacular architecture and the picturesque; and historic preservation, urban renewal, and nationalism. Micheline Nilsen analyzes photographs from France and England?the two countries where photography was invented?and from around the world, representing a corpus of over 10,000 photographs from the Janos Scholz Collection of Nineteenth-Century Photographs of the Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame.
