An exhibit of vintage and contemporary architectural photographs, "Sacred Architecture in the Americas", is now on display at Throckmorton Fine Art in New York City through June 20. (Throckmorton, 145 E. 57th St. 212-223-1059)
Martin Chambi, Panoramic View of Machu Pichu, c. 1930s Gelatin silver print (Inv# 49092)
Image from Throckmorton Fine Art
The web site includes a slide show of fifteen photographs from the
exhibition featuring Desiré Charnay, Martin Chambi, Hugo
Brehme and Marilyn Bridges.
From the press release:
The photographs included in the exhibit are from a wide span of time, from the late nineteenth century to the beginnings of the twenty-first century. Thus, the photographers approached the sacred architecture of the Americas differently. Some early images, such as those by Désiré Charnay and William Henry Jackson, were the outgrowth of expeditions seeking to “discover” the unknown. Photographs were documentary-like, seeking to inform and dazzle the public. Other photographs, such as those by Hugo Brehme, are couched in a pictorialism that invites a pleasant emotional response. The images of Martín Chambi are emblematic of intellectuals’ efforts in the 1920s and 1930s to reassert the values and accomplishment of the indigenous peoples of the Americas. Marilyn Bridges uses the technology of the day to take aerial photographs, giving us views of ruins that we otherwise would never see. Each photograph in the exhibit is informed and enriched by the circumstances of its creation, and the skills of the artist behind the image.
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