‘Image Building’ at Parrish Art Museum Explores Intersection of Photography and Architecture | 2018-03-28 | Architectural Record
If architecture is “frozen music,” it should follow that a building could stand still for its close-up. But as an exhibition called Image Building: How Photography Transforms Architecture makes clear, capturing the built environment on camera has long been a highly subjective enterprise. The show, at the Parrish Art Museum in Water Mill, New York (until June 17, and then traveling to the Frist Center for Visual Arts in Nashville, Tennessee), is a brisk survey of 57 images by 19 photographers, from the glittering night views of 1930s New York by Samuel H. Gottscho (1875–1971) and Berenice Abbott (1898–1991) to the gritty shots of a half-finished Caracas skyscraper, home to a community of squatters, by Iwan Baan (born 1975), a record contributing photographer.