ABSTRACT
Photography is a visual construct – an autonomous abstraction of reality intimately connected to what it portrays. The photography of architecture is constructed, in a similar way to the building itself, as it manipulates indistinctively light, form, matter and space. It overlaps metonymically image and language, the architecture of the photograph with the photography of architecture. Photography is effectively a technique of architectural visualization that represents and documents the spatial, visual and material values of architecture whilst contributing its own distinct aesthetic principles that have a significance of their own. As it captures the space and renders it in two dimensions, the position and angle of the camera will define a kind of crystallization of that space. Therefore, in the photography of architecture, the object can end up being an ‘excuse’, something that becomes absolutely transfigured and subjected to a completely autonomous rhetorical discourse at the margin of the building itself.
