Photography and Architecture, 1839-1939

A study of world architecture as seen through the eyes of ninety great masters of thecamera, this magnificently produced book includes some of the earliest and finest photographs ofarchitectural subjects. It takes us from the Paris of Atget and Baldus to Beato's imperial Japan,and from August Sander's vision of Germany between the Wars to Atlanta after Sherman's march.Amongthe other photographers represented in the book's 148 plates are Talbot, Fenton, and F. H. Evans inBritain; Macpherson and Ponti in Italy; Salzman in Jerusalem; Chamay in Mexico; and Watkins,Stieglitz, Steichen, Abbot, and O'Sullivan in the United States.Phyllis Lambert's introductiondiscusses the importance of photography to the architect and architectural historian. Richard Pare'sessay examines the history of architectural photography and photographic techniques. The extensivecatalog by Catherine Evans Inbusch and Marjorie Munsterberg provides detailed information on thephotographs and biographies of the photographers.Richard Pare is Curator of Photographs at theCanadian Centre for Architecture where Phyllis Lambert is founder and director. All of thephotographs in this book were selected from the Centre's collection. Photography and Architecture:1839-1939 was originally published by the Centre with Callaway Editions in 1982 and is nowdistributed by The MIT Press.

Richard Pare is Curator of Photographs at the Canadian Centre for Architecture.