Concrete
Photography and Architecture
More than 300 of the world's most important architectural photographs in a magnificent book
GVA Gemeinsame Verlagsauslieferung Göttingen
GmbH & Co. KG
P.O. Box 2021
37010 Göttingen
Germany
+49 551 384 200 0
info@gva-verlage.de
Architecture has always been a magnificent and much debated platform to express the spirit of the times, worldviews, everyday life, and aesthetics. It is a daring materialization of private and public visions, of applied art and the avant-garde alike. Concrete – Photography and Architecture presents images of iconic urban architectures and townscapes that refelct the close and complex union between photography and architecture, between architect and photographer. Starting from the 19th century, when photography was invented, the book picks up positions, juxtapositions, and thematic fields that bring together the concrete, fundamental, and the historic. Besides of everyday architecture and glamorous buildings, it looks also at structural horizontal and vertical axes; houses and homes; utopias, plans and reality; the captivating transience of architecture against the test of time; and destruction both natural and intentional.
The book is published to coincide with the exhibition Concrete – Photography and Architecture at Fotomuseum Winterthur.
Winner of the DAM Architectural Book Award 2013.
«Wer noch ein Weihnachtsgeschenk für einen anspruchsvollen Bücherliebhaber sucht, dem sei dieses Buch auch wegen des sehr schönen Layouts, des überzeugenden Drucks und der angenehmen Haptik von Einband und Papier empfohlen.» Simone Hübener, architekturbild news
«Ohne Zweifel kann man diesen 400-seitigen Katalog als neues Standardwerk zur Architekturfotografie bezeichnen. Die ebenso intensive wie vielfältige Beziehung von Architektur und Fotografie wird in kenntnisreichen Texten, in einem Expertengespräch und mit Bildern von zahlreichen Fotografen thematisiert.» www.baunetz.de
«Ein ausgezeichnetes, wunderbar gestaltetes Buch.» Fotogeschichte