Monday, January 10, 2011

Architecture Powerpoint (1/10/11)

Elements Involved in Architecture:
  • Radial balance
  • Line
  • Shape 
  • From
  • Value
  • Color (bring out emphasis) 
  • Texture   
  • Proportion
  • Symmetrical Balance
  • Repetition
Different perspectives in Architecture Photography:
  • The Big Picture
    • picture as a whole
  • The Small Details 
    • statues
    • windows
  • The Interior Shots
Architecture Notes:
  • Architectural photographs are indirect portraits
  • The materials, style and scale provide clues about who the people were and what their lives were like
  • Early films were notoriously slow and needed hours of exposure for one image
  • Architecture was a perfect subject for photography because it didn't move and there are so many different perspectives and angles to take the photo (it was interesting and simply beautiful)
  • Focus on the details of a building as an exploration of abstract images 
  • Patterns dominate almost every part of the image 
Fredrick H. Evans:
  • One of the greatest architecture photographers in history
  • Large part of his work focused on cathedrals in London
  • Depicted emotion with the use of light
  • Advice to photographers: "Try for a record of emotion rather than a piece of photography."
  • Worked primarily in platinum papers (expensive)
  • During WWI, platinum was used exclusively for making bombs and munitions
  • Rather than switching development and his photography process, he GAVE UP photography for good
Ezra Stoller (1915-2004)
  • Influential architectural photographer 
  • Liked architecture photography rather than being an architect

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