Architecture Photography

May be branching off a little bit here but I think this is relevant...


While researching many different photographers that I was given to look into, I had an idea that lead me to start looking into the way buildings are made. The well thought about designs behind the architecture of some of the buildings in manchester means nothing to most of the people who walk through the shopping, business or other parts of Manchester. For most people who take the same route every time they walk or pass through Manchester, they are almost oblivious to the structures that surround them, be that every day or not.
The first architectural photographer that I stumbled upon was the late Berenice Abbott, an american photographer best known for her work in New York City where she captured some fantastic shots of skyscrapers and high rise buildings. 
Abbott was highly influenced by  the French photographer Eugene Atget, after knowing Atget during his final years and from reading into his photographs, she decided to recreate what he did in Paris in New York where she thought was a place with great photographic potential. Below are some of my favourite photographs of Abbott's. 

Although not all of her work was to do with architecture, most of it was. One image which links in with psychogeography can be seen below, I like this photograph because it gives a different perspective that the usual way that people would see/ navigate over the bridge which is the main focus of the image. This is what I think is psychogeography. In a way, it seems that the bridge has just been 'plonked' there, in the middle of the natural environment which is full of tree's in what looks like winter. This could be took as a diss on the rapidly developing world, where transport takes over many things, including the nature.

Another, more 21st century, architectural photographer I have researched is British Daniel Hopkinson. Although his photographs work and show the architecture of many buildings, the thing that I dont like about this photographers work is that it lacks any creative thought in my eyes, I much prefer the work of the above photographer Berenice Abbott. I will however, include a number of Hopkinson's photographs, see below.