Abstract:
Like many other fields of photography, architectural
photography is a visual way of communication.
Architectural photography can be used for advertising
or for documentation purposes 1 ike the surveying of
buildings.
Architectural photography has its own complexities. In
one situation the photograph will be considered as
architectural and in the other not architectural, for
example when a photograph of a group of buildings is
lab led "city scape" instead of architectural
photography.
Architectural photography can be defined as such when
the primary objective is straight forward documentation
of a subject which was conceived or designed by an
architect.
A famous architectural photographer, Norman McGrath,
said that there are a few dimensions in architectural
photography to be explored: "Aesthetics, imagination,
abstraction, ieality, emotion, harmony, relationships,
drama, time, humanism and honesty. Mastery of the practical aspects
architectural subjects
2
of creating
would open
photographs
the door to
of
these
more philosophical elements." (Photographing buildings
inside and out, Norman McGrath).
