Balthazar Korab: Architect of Photography - Rilegato

Comazzi, John

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ISBN 10: 161689041X ISBN 13: 9781616890414

Casa editrice: Princeton Architectural Pr, 2012

Riassunto

No one captured the midcentury modernism of the Mad Men era better than Balthazar Korab. As one of the period's most prolific and celebrated architecture photographers, Korab captured images as graceful and elegant as his subjects. His iconic photographs for master architects immortalized their finest works, while leaving his own indelible impact on twentieth century visual culture. In this riveting illustrated biography-the first dedicated solely to his life and career-author John Comazzi traces Korab's circuitous path to a career in photography. He paints a vivid picture of a young man forced to flee his native Hungary, who goes on to study architecture at the famed École des Beaux-Arts in Paris before emigrating to the United States and launching his career as Eero Saarinen's on-staff photographer. The book includes a portfolio of more than one hundred images from Korab's professionally commissioned architecture photography as well as close examinations of Saarinen's TWA Terminal and the Miller House in Columbus, Indiana.

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"[Korab's] work's enduring value is as a document of the push and pull of midcentury, the conflict between the curve and the cube at the moment America became the center of world design." --Wall Street Journal

Don't expect systematic theory, or an absence of repetition, but do expect love and loathing expressed in prose close to the 400-nanometer end of the colour spectrum, but precise and exhilarating nonetheless. Never knowingly under-adjectived, not shy of neologisms, Meades offers up phrases such as the following, in which he accuses contemporary architects of "feeding on the avant-garde of many decades ago, merely saucing the dish with sustainastic, sustainabulous splashes of green piety and chromatic discord --The Observer

L'autore:

John Comazzi is an Associate Professor of Architecture in the College of Design at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches undergraduate- and graduate-level design courses and research seminars. He received a Masters of Architecture and a Masters of Science in Architectural History & Theory from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia. He has remained a close acquaintance of the Korabs since their first introduction in 1997.

John Comazzi is an Associate Professor of Architecture in the College of Design at the University of Minnesota, where he teaches undergraduate- and graduate-level design courses and research seminars. He received a Masters of Architecture and a Masters of Science in Architectural History & Theory from the University of Michigan and a Bachelor of Science in Architecture from the University of Virginia. He has remained a close acquaintance of the Korabs since their first introduction in 1997.

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• Editore: Princeton Architectural Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 161689041X
• ISBN 13: 9781616890414
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 191