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Epics in the Everyday - Photography, Architecture, and the Problem of Realism (Hardcover)
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Epics in the Everyday - Photography, Architecture, and the Problem of Realism (Hardcover)
Series: Rice Architecture
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Architecture and photography are both semi-autonomous disciplines,
suspended between the fine arts and the utilitarian. Because of
this condition, realism is considered a given in both, something
that happens almost by default. As soon as a building is inhabited
it becomes the backdrop for somebody's everyday drama - just like a
photograph that, the moment it is taken, is understood as an
automatic record of whatever was in front of the camera. In his new
book, Epics in the Everyday, Jesus Vassallo traces a series of
collaborations between architects and photographers starting in the
immediate post-war years and up to the present. Consistently, the
subject matter of these collaborations is the anonymous built
environment, which in different ways presents both architects and
artists with a mirror that interrogates and challenges the idea of
realism in their respective disciplines. Beyond shedding a diagonal
light on some important developments within the two individual
disciplines, the book chronicles an alternative history of both
modern architecture and documentary photography and builds a case
for a specific type of realism found at their intersection.
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