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Photography or Life / Popular Mies - Columns of Smoke
Juan Jose Lahuerta
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Description for Photography or Life / Popular Mies - Columns of Smoke
Paperback. Features overlooked aspects of modern architecture and photography and reveal a more nuanced-and plausible-conception of the world. This volume includes images tied to the history of twentieth-century architecture with anonymous graphic materials and pictures. It will redefine our concept of modernity. Translator(s): Thomson, Graham. Num Pages: 160 pages, 130 halftones. BIC Classification: 3JJ; AJ; AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 211 x 162 x 12. Weight in Grams: 332.
Columns of Smoke is a two-volume collection. The first volume includes "Photography or Life" and "Popular Mies," which illuminate overlooked aspects of modern architecture and photography and reveal a more nuanced-and plausible-conception of the modern world. In "Photography or Life," Juan Jose Lahuerta contrasts well-known images tied to the history of twentieth-century architecture with anonymous graphic materials and pictures from the popular press. In doing so, he demonstrates that pointing a camera at a building is neither natural nor innocent-it involves deliberate and telling decisions. His analysis of the work of Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, for example, suggests irreconcilable ... Read more
Columns of Smoke is a two-volume collection. The first volume includes "Photography or Life" and "Popular Mies," which illuminate overlooked aspects of modern architecture and photography and reveal a more nuanced-and plausible-conception of the modern world. In "Photography or Life," Juan Jose Lahuerta contrasts well-known images tied to the history of twentieth-century architecture with anonymous graphic materials and pictures from the popular press. In doing so, he demonstrates that pointing a camera at a building is neither natural nor innocent-it involves deliberate and telling decisions. His analysis of the work of Adolf Loos and Le Corbusier, for example, suggests irreconcilable ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Editorial Tenov S.L. Spain
Number of pages
160
Condition
New
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
Barcelona, Spain
ISBN
9788493923143
SKU
V9788493923143
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About Juan Jose Lahuerta
Juan Jose Lahuerta is chief curator at the National Museum of Art of Catalonia in Barcelona and professor of the history of art at the Barcelona School of Architecture. Graham Thomson has been translating poetry and prose for most of his life.
Reviews for Photography or Life / Popular Mies - Columns of Smoke
"Modernity without stereotypes." (Francesco Dal Co, Casabella)