Shooting Space: Architecture Photography Survey Features 50 Artists

Shooting Space explores contemporary photography of architecture and the built environment through works by 50 established and emerging artists. The publication organizes these works into five thematic categories: Manufacturing Iconography, Cityscapes of Change, Man-Altered Landscapes, Excavating Modernism, and After Architecture. Elias Redstone provides introductory texts, while longer essays by curators Kate Bush and Pedro Gadanho examine the historical relationship between art photography and architecture. Featured artists include Michael Wolf, whose images of vast housing blocks evoke unease, and Alex Hartley, who photographed himself hanging from a Pierre Koenig Case Study House. The project moves beyond distinctions between architectural and art photography to consider what each medium gains from the other and what broader insights they offer viewers. This survey originally appeared in the October 2014 issue of ArtReview, coinciding with Redstone's similarly themed Constructing Worlds exhibition at the Barbican in London.