Interesting article, more of a photo journalist than and actual architectural photographer in my eyes, maybe I'm missing something? Great images all the same, with an obvious architectural back drop, hardly the stuff of large format camera shooters like Tim Griffith though!
I shot LF exclusively for architecture for 25+ years. If you haven't noticed the field is changing (like it or not) and IB is perhaps the most heralded example of new trends.
Fair points, and he certainly does bring something different to the party which is refreshing, loved his website, do you reckon the days of large format disciplined architectural shooting are numbered though? I only know a couple shooting LF in Scotland, and while the field is changing, like everything else it goes through fads and fashions, swings and roundabouts,which is what keeps it interesting, but I sincerely hope that doesn't make certain practices extinct! Great post Kirk, made me think a lot about what's going on!!
All the top AP's I know (and I know a ton of them all over the world) shoot digital with tech cameras or DSLRs with T/S lenses. Digital opens up allot of new techniques. I could never meet my deadlines if I had to shoot film and scan it. On a big shoot that would ad 10 days to my turn around time. Film is not coming back for AP except for personal projects.
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The Photography of Architecture and Design by Julius Shulman, a classic from the film days.
Richard Nickel's Chicago: Photographs of a Lost City, Nickel was one of the greats, a tireless advocate and documenter of historic architecture.
Building Images: Seventy Years of Photography at Hedrich Blessing by Tony Hiss. A venerable institution, The HB photographers in every decade define the best of the genre.
Gabriele Basilco by Francesco Bonami, Phaidon Press. Basilico is a master of urban documentaion.
Architecture Transformed by Cervin Robinson, a good history of the genre.
Photographing Buildings Inside and Out by Norman McGrath, an insightful text by one of the film masters.
Shelter from the Storm: The Photographs of Kirk Gittings by Gussie Fauntleroy, a retropective of my work published by New Mexico Magazine.
Interesting article, more of a photo journalist than and actual architectural photographer in my eyes, maybe I'm missing something? Great images all the same, with an obvious architectural back drop, hardly the stuff of large format camera shooters like Tim Griffith though!
ReplyDeleteI shot LF exclusively for architecture for 25+ years. If you haven't noticed the field is changing (like it or not) and IB is perhaps the most heralded example of new trends.
ReplyDeleteFair points, and he certainly does bring something different to the party which is refreshing, loved his website, do you reckon the days of large format disciplined architectural shooting are numbered though? I only know a couple shooting LF in Scotland, and while the field is changing, like everything else it goes through fads and fashions, swings and roundabouts,which is what keeps it interesting, but I sincerely hope that doesn't make certain practices extinct! Great post Kirk, made me think a lot about what's going on!!
DeleteAll the top AP's I know (and I know a ton of them all over the world) shoot digital with tech cameras or DSLRs with T/S lenses. Digital opens up allot of new techniques. I could never meet my deadlines if I had to shoot film and scan it. On a big shoot that would ad 10 days to my turn around time. Film is not coming back for AP except for personal projects.
ReplyDeleteNot so much film Kirk, I was referring to AP's using large format cameras with MF backs!
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