Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age – Barbican, London
25 September 2014 – 11 January 2015
Group Exhibition
Barbican, London
Since the very first photograph, architecture has proved to be an enduring subject matter for photographers. Constructing Worlds looks beyond the medium’s ability to simply document the built world and explores the power of photography to reveal wider truths about society. The exhibition brings together 250 works – some rarely seen and many shown in the UK for the first time – by 18 leading photographers from the 1930s to now, who have changed the way we view architecture and think about the world in which we live.
News coverage:
- The Guardian: Constructing Worlds: classic photographs that redefine our cities – in pictures, September 22, 2014
- FastCoDesign: How Photographers Make People Fall In Love With Buildings, September 22, 2014
- Evening Standard: exhibition review, September 25, 2014
- It’s Nice that: Barbican Constructing Worlds exhibition is a photographic tour de force, September 25, 2014
- The Guardian: Constructing Worlds review – the battered, beautiful and barely credible, September 27, 2014
- The Guardian: ‘Rowan Moore’s top 10 exhibitions of 2014’, December 17, 2014
- LA Times: Christopher Hawthorne’s best of architecture in 2014, December 19, 2014
- Wired: 17 of the Most Influential Architecture Photos of All Time, October 17, 2014