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Constructions of Place: Architecture in Photography

Constructions of Place: Architecture in Photography

Erin Barnett, curator

North Balcony, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

This exhibition examines architectural photography of the last 150 years. It considers the role that photography has played in defining the built environment. It also looks at the way photographers have used the medium to document, celebrate, and critique the changing landscape of urban and rural areas in over fifty photographs from Europe and the United States.

Exhibition images

Works of art

Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), Hanover Square

Robert Adams (born 1937), Colorado Springs

Thomas Annan (1829–1887), Close No. 139, Saltmarket

Dick Arentz (born 1935), Wells Cathedral, Stairs to Chapter House II

Eugène Atget (1857–1927), Place du Tertre, Mars

Lewis Baltz (1945–2014), New Irvine Industrial Parks, No. 12

Felice Beato (1825–circa 1905), Fujiyama from Hamahaka

Félix Bonfils (1831–1885), El-Arhar avec Muerzins

Nicolette Bromberg (born 1950), St. Bartholomew's Church

Harry Callahan (1912–1999), Chicago

William Christenberry (1936–2016), The Bar-B-Q Inn, Greensboro, Alabama

William Christenberry (1936–2016), Church, Sprott, Alabama

Louis De Clercq (1836–1901), Seville, Alcasar, Porte d'Entrée, #17 [Seville, Alcasar Entrance Gate, #17]

Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966), Stock Exchange, New York

Geri della Rocca de Candal (born 1942), S. Maria Maggiore - Rome

Frederick Henry Evans (1853–1943), Church of St. Lazare, Avallon

Walker Evans (1903–1975), Gas Station, Reedsville, West Virginia

Walker Evans (1903–1975), Rural Home, Southeastern U.S.

Walker Evans (1903–1975), Negro Church, South Carolina

Louis Faurer (1916–2001), New York, N.Y.

Frédéric Flachéron (1813–1883), Pont à Rome

Jo Ann Frank (1947), Gibb's Staircase

Robert Frank (1924–2019), Metropolitan Life Insurance Building

Lee Friedlander (born 1934), Albuquerque

Francis Frith (1822–1898), Pillars in the Great Hall Karnac

Alexander Gardner (1821–1882), State House at Topeka, Kansas

Alexander Gardner (1821–1882), General Jim Lane's House, Lawrence, Kansas

Laura Gilpin (1891–1979), Indian Bake Ovens, Taos Pueblo

Frank Gohlke (born 1942), Grain Elevators, Minneapolis I

Sid Grossman (1915–1955), untitled (Chelsea, New York City)

Ben Heller (1913–2006), Carrier Corp. Building, New York World's Fair

Ben Heller (1913–2006), Administration Annex, New York World's Fair

Anthony Hernandez (born 1947), Saigon Shell Station

Herdis Y Herman Jacobsen, Weaver's Cottage

Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours (1807–1873), Portal de Notre Dame de Reims

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–1978), Splitting

Joel Meyerowitz (born 1938), Haratwig House, Truro

Wright Morris (1910–1998), Gano Grain Elevator, Western Kansas

Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897–1966), Altes Spital

Paolo Salviati (1818–1894), Loggie Del Palazzo Ducale verso la Chiesa Della Salute

Paolo Salviati (1818–1894), Palazzo Rezzonico

Peter Sekaer (1901–1950), New Orleans

Stephen Shore (born 1947), untitled

Art Sinsabaugh (1924–1983), Chi. LA #155

Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914), Temple of Castor and Pollux

John Stanton (1799–1888), untitled (Lord Leycester Hospital, Warwick)

Edward Steichen (1879–1973), Rockefeller Center

Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), Old and New New York

Paul Strand (1890–1976); Richard Benson (born 1943), The White Fence, Port Kent, New York

Paul Strand (1890–1976), From the Viaduct, New York

Max Yavno (1911–1985), Garage Doors

Lawrence Windmill

First Street Schoolhouse, Bangor, Maine

The Nave from the Eastern Dome of the Crystal Palace

Frederick Langenheim (1809–1879); William Langenheim (1807–1873), untitled (conical shaped structure under construction/destruction)