Photography and architecture in the nineteenth century, a book of historical research.
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| Photography and architecture in the nineteenth century, a book of historical research. |
Editorial Chair, in his collection Big Issues, has published an interesting volume titled photography and architecture in the nineteenth century. History and monumental representation that reflects the research on this subject carried out by professor and curator Helena Pérez Garrido. It is a work test analyzes and contextualizes the relationship between architecture and photography from the moment in which it was born coinciding precisely with the rise of positivism and its quest to document everything, something for which in photography was a new and indispensable tool.
The first three chapters of this book addresses the beginnings of architectural photography in Europe, particularly in France and Britain are the two major countries of reference. They realize the relationship between photography and fine arts and instrumentation used for architectural photography. Also it develops what was the dissemination of architectural photography in Western society of that time and who and what the major photographers and European studies that were developed this specialty.
In the next part of the book, which devotes three chapters, Helena Garrido Pérez looks back to clear as Spain was the origin of architectural photography in Spain, the techniques employed, the most prominent photographers and use He was given the photograph of Spanish architecture in illustrated publications and other media.
There is a seventh and final chapter in which the researcher turns the tables to look at the architecture in the service of photography or, in other words, the description of how were the photographic studies of the time in Europe and in Spain, Detailed descriptions appeared in publications of the nineteenth century.
It is worth noting that the investigations carried out by Helena Pérez Garrido over the years have led him to contradict the thesis of this book an important historian of photography, Helmut Gernsheim, who claimed that "Spain, unlike Italy it was not a popular country for tourists in the nineteenth century and was not part of the usual itinerary of the Grand Tour "
Fifty years after those statements, this book changed that idea, and shows documentary that Spain not only was part of the Grand Photographic Tour, but through photography of its attractions, its architecture was discovered, praised and disseminated by precisely foreign romantic travelers, scholars, architects and scientists, who throughout the second half of the nineteenth century we visited. Some of them settled in Spain, with its production stimulating the emergence of the first generation of Spanish photographers and consolidating the genre of architectural photography, whose extensive international dissemination serve as privileged vehicle for the knowledge of the monumental and architectural history Spain.
The book contains 424 pages and, like any self-respecting academic work, has an abundant bibliography with hundreds of references which occupy 38 pages. The graphics are also well defended with reference multiple illustrations exemplify the written speech.
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