Architecture In Class Notes

• Architecture photos are indirect portraits.
• Materials, style and scale provide clues to what people's lives were like

Architecture is good for photography because;

• Building's history
• Different angles and perspectives
• Doesn't change
• Only raw photographic materials needed to make it
• Designs in architecture coinside with those of photographic elements and principles.

Frederic H. Evans

• One of the greatest architectural photographers
• Focused on catherdrals in London
• Depicted emotions with the use of lighting
• Primarily used platinum paper and when the paper became scarce because of WWII he gave up photographer forever, rather than change is artistic process.

Architecture uses a lot of pattern and repetition.
3 types of architecture shots

• Big picture
• Small detail
• Interior

Ezra Stoller

• Focused on using line, shape and form
• Started out as an architect, but switched to photography

Patterns dominate almost all architectural photos.
Important to communicate the personality of the space and its relationship to its surroundings in architectural photography.