Analogue Images places two of the most consequential architectural photographers working today — Melbourne's Rory Gardiner and Brussels-based Maxime Delvaux — in direct dialogue, interrogating what photography actually does to architecture and space.
About This Book
Born from an exhibition at the Tin Sheds Gallery at the University of Sydney, Analogue Images is a critical and visual inquiry into architectural photography as a discipline in its own right. Gardiner and Delvaux are not mere documentarians — their images shape how entire bodies of built work are received and understood. The book expands the original exhibition's twenty-two images to a more comprehensive selection, situating them within texts from photographers, collaborators, and critics. The result is both a catalogue of considered image-making and a probing examination of authorship, collaboration, and the mediation of contemporary architecture through the photographic lens.
Key Features
- 80 pages of expanded photographic selection alongside critical and contextual texts
- Edited by Guillermo Fernández-Abascal, Urtzi Grau, and Janelle Woo
- Work documenting practices including Bruther, Baukunst, 51N4E, Muoto, Christian Kerez, Baracco+Wright, Candalepas Associates, Buchner Bründler Architekten, and Ludwig Godefroy
- Published by Perimeter Editions, ISBN: 9781922545329
What You'll Discover
- How the pairing of Gardiner and Delvaux's images reveals distinct modes of authorship and differing approaches to architectural collaboration
- The way professional commissions — rather than autonomous projects — structure and constrain architectural photography as a practice
- How photographic choices capture everyday life within built space, beyond the conventions of pristine architectural representation
- Critical frameworks for understanding the reciprocal relationship between photography and architecture in contemporary practice
About the Author
Rory Gardiner is a Melbourne-based architectural photographer whose work is closely associated with practices including Baracco+Wright, Candalepas Associates, and Buchner Bründler Architekten. Maxime Delvaux, based in Brussels, is the photographer of choice for Bruther, Baukunst, 51N4E, Muoto, and Christian Kerez. Together, their images constitute a significant portion of the visual language through which contemporary architecture is consumed globally.
Specifications
- Format: Softcover
- Pages: 80
- Dimensions: 23 x 30 cm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9781922545329
- Publisher: Perimeter Editions
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and designers attentive to how their work is represented; architectural photographers and students of photography; academics working in visual culture, media, and the built environment.