Peter Scheier

Abstract

According to the research and reassessment of photographic archives, as well as the testimonials provided by the photographers who worked mainly between the 1930s and the 1960s, it was in the first decades of the twentieth century that the relation between modern architecture and photography became so intricate that the latter became a paradigm of architectural modernity's representation. This was show~ for example by Reyner Banham's revisionist approach (Whitely, 2002) when tracing back the importation and appropriation of the American industrial building model to Europe through photographic images (Banham, 1986).