- Architectural photos are indirect portraits
- How do you bring the personality out?
- The Materials, style, and scale provide clues about who the people were and what their lives are like.
- Framing help focus on certain buildings, and create variety.
- Looking Back...
- Early films were notoriously slow and need long amounts of time for exposure
- This is why Architecture was a perfect subject! (It didn't move, and any amount of photographers could find something new to accentuate)
- Elements of photography can be easily found in buildings
- Fredrick H. Evans
- Famous architecture photographer
- A large part of his work focused on cathedrals in London
- He depicted emotion with light
- Told people to "Try for a record of emotion rather than a piece photography"
- Worked primarily in platinum papers (Early form of developing process)
- During WWI, platinum was used for making bombs
- He dropped photography forever rather than changing his process
- Three Types of Architecture Photography:
- Interior
- Big Picture
- Small Detail
- Ezra Stoller (1915-2004)
- Influential architectural photography in 1960's-2000's
- Left his career of Architecture to take pictures instead.
- Thinking Artistically:
- You can focus on full View of the space and the emotions connected to it, like a portrait.
- Or focus on the details!
- Patterns
- Patterns are dominate in Architectural Photography.
-Babs
