Architecture Powerpoint Notes

• Early films were notoriously slow and needed hours of exposure for one image-architecture was a perfect subject
• One of the greatest architecture photographers in the history of architectural photography-Fredrick H. Evans
• Large part of work focused on Cathedrals in London
• Worked primarily in platinum papers
• During WW1, platinum was used exclusively for making bombs and munitions.
• Rather than switching developing processes or changing papers, he dropped photography forever.
• Ezra Stoller (1915-2004) influential architectural photographer
• Thinking artistically-You can focus on the full-view of the space and the emotions connected to it, like a portrait.
• Or focus on the details of a building, as an exploration of abstract images.
• Patterns-In architectural photography, patterns dominate almost every part of the image.