Camera Constructs: Photography, Architecture and the Modern City

Camera/Construct contains a selection of essays by a range of architectural historians and theorists exploring the relationship between photography, architecture and the modern city. The title Camera/Constructs on the one hand suggests an opposition between the medium of photography and the materiality of construction, but on the other can be read as saying that the camera invariably constructs what it depicts the photograph is not a simple representation of an external reality, but constructs its meaning and reconstructs its subjects. The book thus both documents and engages critically with photographic work which uses architecture and the city as its subject.This is the first book to both document and reflect critically on a range of current and historical practices in architecture and photography, through the work of leading critics and historians. Some twenty essays, grouped under the themes of Modernist work, Perceptual and Conceptual Constructs, and Cultural Construction, provide a rich, well informed and highly original analysis of the relationships of photography and built form through the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.