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Object, Image, Aura: Le Corbusier And The Architecture Of Photography, Daniel J. Naegele
Object, Image, Aura: Le Corbusier And The Architecture Of Photography, Daniel J. Naegele
Daniel J. Naegele
Returning to his studio one evening at dusk, Wassily Kandinsky was enchanted by "an unexpected spectacle." He suddenly saw "an indescribably beautiful picture, pervaded by an inner glow," he wrote in his "Reminiscences" of 1913 . "At first, I stopped short and then quickly approached this mysterious picture, on which I could discern only forms and colors and whose content was incomprehensible. At once, I discovered the key to the puzzle: it was a picture I had painted, standing on its side against the wall." Kandinsky was deeply affected, and the next day attempted a re-creation of his impression of …
An Interview With Ezra Stoller, Daniel J. Naegele
An Interview With Ezra Stoller, Daniel J. Naegele
Daniel J. Naegele
Ezra Stoller's ‘first photograph that ever amounted to anything’ was of Alvar Aalto's Finnish Pavilion at the 1939 New York World's Fair. Aalto was just forty-one years old at the time and soon he — like Gropius, Breuer, Mies, Mendelsohn and so many other German architects and artists — would escape the war in Europe by moving to America. Most of them stayed on, preaching their message in major universities, and finding in this ‘land of hyperreality’ fertile ground for the manifestation of their architectural beliefs. They and their followers —together with the immigrants Saarinen and Kahn and, most importandy, …