Friday 28 July, 2.00 pm – 3.00 pm, Tin Sheds Gallery
From photojournalism (document) to cinematography (light-sound-movement-tableaux)
From document to fiction
Représentation of Architecture
In the 1980’s, when I first began working, architectural photography was linked to magazines. The idea was to renew the historical culture of Architecture. For that photography was to take the public on architectural promenades, as developed by Le Corbusier. Was it photography? What was at stake here was the independence of the photographer.
Architecture is the creation of places that people inhabit, rather than the design of signature objects. This is particularly true for housing. The challenge for the architectural photographer then, is to show the occupancy of space.
The main question, therefore, is architectural photography an art?
Bio – Philippe Ruault
Born in 1949, Philippe started work as a photographer in 1985.
Professional work
Richard Rogers and Jean Nouvel (1988 to 2010); OMA, Rem Koolhaas (Porto, Seattle, Beijing-Shenzen, Dallas, Rotterdam), Sejima-Fuksas and Lacaton & Vassal (1993 – current)
Published work
Shokokusha Publisher, (Japan), Adolf Loos, Rudolph Schindler, Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Mies Van der Rohe.
Recent published work
Adolf Loos, ed. Ralf Bock (Skira: Milan, 2007).
Hans Scharoun: Gestalt finden, ed. Ralf Bock (Park Books, Zürich, 2022).
Jean Nouvel: 1981-2022’ ed. Philip Jodidio (Taschen Books, New York, 2022).
Exhibition work
Tokyo, New York, Paris.
