On the Past and Future Tensions Between Documentation and Esthetics in Architectural Photography

Abstract

From the perspective of a specialist in environmental health and as a son of an architectural and architectural photography innovator, the author of this essay reviews the ways that photographers approach architecture. It argues that the Internet and digital technology should be used to document how architecture accommodates what clients do and how they interact as well as documenting brief esthetic experiences in and around architecture.

Keywords

• architecture
• architectural photography
• Richard Neutra
• Julius Shulman