The Life and Death of Buildings: On Photography and Time

by Joel Smith

Book Overview

Buildings inhabit and symbolize time, giving form to history and making public space an index of the past. Photographs are made of time; they are literally projections of past states of their subjects. This visually striking meditation on architecture in photography explores the intersection between these two ways of embodying the past. Photographs of buildings, Joel Smith argues, are simultaneously the agents, vehicles, and cargo of social memory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300174357
• ISBN13: 9780300174359
• Release Date: August 2011
• Publisher: Princeton University Art Museum
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 8.6" x 8.5"