Facade - Faces Onto

1. DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front
Faces onto…
Façade
INSPIRATION

2. STRAIGHT / PURE
PHOTOGRAPHY

3. EUGENE ATGET
Paris
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front
Eugune Atget - 1924
Eugène Atget was a French flâneur and a
pioneer of documentary photography, noted for
his determination to document all of the
architecture and street scenes of Paris before
their disappearance to modernization.

4. Paul Strand
& Straight/Pure
Photography
Paul Strand was an American photographer and
filmmaker who, along with fellow modernist
photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Edward
Weston, helped establish photography as an art form
in the 20th century.
- Paul Strand took to create abstract images.
- Still life con
fi
guration of dishes and fruit becomes a formal composition of arcs and curves
- The objects transcend their everyday function to become lines and shapes de
fi
ned by the dramatic lighting.
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

5. • Movement led by Paul Strand- Straight forward approach
• Focus is on composition, shape, line, and form
• Image is sharp, and in focus (no more blurry, soft-focus
images)
• Beauty in everyday objects when captured by the artist’s eye
• Movement mirrored similar modernist movements in other art
forms
Paul Strand
& Straight/Pure
Photography
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

6. WALKER EVANS
Straight/Pure Photography
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

7. COLOUR

8. Stephen Shore
Uncommon Places
Published by Aperture in 1982 and long unavailable, Stephen Shore's legendary
Uncommon Places has influenced a generation of photographers. Among the first
artists to take color beyond advertising and fashion photography, Shore's large-
format color work on the American vernacular landscape stands at the root of what
has become a vital photographic tradition. Uncommon Places: The Complete
Works presents a definitive collection of the original series, much of it never before
published or exhibited. Like Robert Frank and Walker Evans before him, Shore
discovered a hitherto unarticulated version of America via highway and camera.
Approaching his subjects with cool objectivity, Shore's images retain precise
internal systems of gestures in composition and light through which the objects
before his lens assume both an archetypal aura and an ambiguously personal
importance.
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

9. William
Eggleston
beauty in the mundane
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

10. LUIGI GHIRRI
Kodachrome
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

11. TOPOLOGY

12. TOPOLOGY
De
fi
nition
1. The systematic classi
fi
cation
of the types of something
according to
their common characteristics.
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

13. TOPOLOGY
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

14. The Bechers
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front
TAKE AWAY POINT
- Flat perspective
- Straight photography
- Minimalist / simple
- Urban setting
- Sequence
- Present - multi photo sequence

15. Edward
Ruscha
Every Building
on the Sunset
Strip
Like a row of bricks.
Minimalism as well as a
readymade chance
arrangement (the strip
itself) of the artist's
beloved vernacular
architectural eyesores.
In the Eyes Wide Shut section, there are six composite photos of the
Commercial Road in the East End, all shot by nephew Manuel Harlan who,
to get the angle Kubrick demanded, stood on a twelve-foot ladder that he
had to keep moving down the entire road.
Manuel Harlan - Commercial Road (Stanley Kubrick
Exhibition Eyes Wide Shut)
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

16. Brutalism
The term originates from the French word for "raw" in the term used by Le
Corbusier to describe his choice of material béton brut (raw concrete).
British architectural critic Reyner Banham adapted the term into "brutalism"
(originally "New Brutalism") to identify the emerging style.
Locations
Barbican
Southback - Haywood gallery + NT
City Hall
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

17. Pearblossom Hwy, 11 - 18th April 1986
David Hockney
Joiners
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

18. David Hockney
Joiners
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

19. Maurizo
Galimberti
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

20. Altered Landscapes

21. Altered
Landscapes
Exploring genres, playing with expectations...
Andreas Gursky
Todd Hido
Matthew Brandt
Ernst Haas - water and re
fl
ections
Haas pioneered colour photography and is also
famous for his images of movement using long
shutter speeds. He photographed water
throughout his career, fascinated by its ability to
re
fl
ect light and its dynamic movement. He crops
the subject to increase the sense of abstraction.
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

22. Harry Callahan - natural forms
I love the way Harry Callahan is able
to see patterns, textures and
repetition. His images have just
enough information. He knows just
where to place the edges, to leave out
unnecessary details, so that we are
able to focus on the main idea. He
has a fantastic sense of design.
Aaron Siskind - natural and urban surfaces
Siskind was interested in surfaces
and textures, both from the
natural world but also the urban
environment. He gets in close to
his subjects and
fi
lls the frame
with detail. There is always a
strong sense of design and all
over interest for the viewer.
Alfred Stieglitz - patterns in the sky
These pictures were an attempt to
demonstrate how "to hold a moment, how to
record something so completely, that all who
see [the picture of it] will relive an equivalent
of what has been expressed." The
'Equivalents', as they are known, aim to
create a sensation in the viewer similar to that
experienced by the photographer. Is this
possible, do you think?

23. DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front
BILL BRANDT
Abstract Human Form
Brandt’s semi-abstract photographs of nudes, of body parts
juxtaposed with pebbles and rocks,

24. DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front
Brandt’s semi-abstract photographs of nudes, of body parts
juxtaposed with pebbles and rocks,
BILL BRANDT
Abstract Human Form

25. DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front
BILL BRANDT
Connections with Henry Moore

26. Rolf Sachs blurs the boundaries
between abstract art and
landscape photography in this
series of images, Camera in
Motion. The images,
photographed from the
windows of a moving train,
bring to our minds memories of
family road trips experienced
from the back seat of the car
with your forehead pressed
against the car window,
watching the landscape
streak by at 70 miles per hour.
Rolf Sachs
‘Camera in Motion’
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

27. Mike Mandel: Light Painting Photography, 1980
STOPPING TIME
SHUTTER SPEED & MOVEMENT
Tokihiro Sato: Light Painting Photography, 1988
Eric Staller: Light Painting Photography, 1976
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

28. MACRO
Photography
Revealing tiny worlds
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

29. Jennifer Graber
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front
Exploring Surface Textures

30. STILL LIFE
THE SURFACE OF
THINGS

31. ACTIVITY #2
INVESTIGATE
Compare and contrast the work of one
or two more photographers from the
1920s and 30s who explored the way
photography could be used to describe
material reality
- the surfaces of various objects both
natural and man-made.
I’ve included a few
modernist photographs
and a link to the brilliant
Thomas Walther
Collection
which contains a wide
range of examples of
modernist photography
from the 20s and 30s
INVESTIGATE MODERNIST
RESPONSES
TO THINGS AND THEIR
SURFACES
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

32. Imogen Cunningham
Flora , 1925
Edward Weston
Pepper #30, 1930
Edward Steichen
A Bee on a Sun
fl
ower, 1920
Iwao Yamawaki
Composition with bricks, 1930
André Kertész
Fork, 1928
Manuel Alvarez Bravo
Books , 1930
Albert Renger Patzsch
Flat Irons for Shoe Manufacture, 1926
Piet Zwart
Folded Magazine, 1932
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front
INVESTIGATE MODERNIST RESPONSES
TO THINGS AND THEIR SURFACES

33. LOOKING AT
PAUL STRAND
PAUL STRAND’S STRAIGHT COMPOSITION AESTHETICS
“Straight Aesthetic” describes a straight forward approach to making photographs
- Focus is on composition, shape, line, and form
- Image is sharp, and in focus (no more blurry, soft-focus images)
- Beauty in everyday objects when captured by the artist’s eye
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

34. This photograph depicts a close-up
view of regular kitchen bowls that
are used to study the effects of
light and shadow.
The round, concave objects are
reduced to geometric circular
shapes, de
fi
ned by the highlighted
linear top edge of the bowls and the
depth of the shadows.
The composition of overlapping
circular shapes dismantles the
structure of the object, making it
almost abstract, and not easily
recognisable.
Paul Strand. 'Abstraction, Bowls,
Twin Lakes, Connecticut' 1916
LOOKING AT
PAUL STRAND
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

35. COMPARISONS WITH
EDWARD WESTON
Pepper No. 30 is
one of the best-
known photographs
taken by Edward
Weston.
It depicts a solitary
green pepper in rich
black-and-white
tones, with strong
illumination from
above.
How are they
different to
Strand?
How are Westons
photographs similar?
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

36. PAUL STRAND
Geometric - Machine Aesthetic
EDWARD WESTON
Organic - Nature

37. ABSTRACTIONS
Non - representational Imagery

38. The following artists demonstrate
what can be achieved
with very simple materials
PAPER & LIGHT
Each of them seems more interested in the formal (abstract) elements of photography
than in representing the subject naturalistically.
Non-representational imagery
ABSTRACTIONS
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

39. Non-representational imagery
ABSTRACTIONS
In the early years of photography,
certain artists understood this
aspect of the medium and
emphasised the abstract qualities
of photographs
This tradition of abstraction in
photography continues to the
present day.
Non-representational imagery
ABSTRACTIONS
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

40. Francis Bruguière
Bruguière
exploits the
endlessly subtle
qualities of both
paper and light,
manipulating
both in order to
create complex
patterns of
texture and form.
Non-representational imagery
ABSTRACTIONS
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

41. Jaroslav Rössler
His photographs often reduced
images to elementary lines and
shapes, exploring the contrast
of light and shade. He
experimented with a wide
range of techniques and
processes including
photograms and double
exposures.
Non-representational imagery
ABSTRACTIONS
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

42. “Paper Work, my current
three-year project is
comprised of twenty-six
images. In my studio, I
shaped two-dimensional
art papers giving them
edges and volumes, then
lit them dramatically
utilizing Fresnel lighting
(a soft-edged spotlight)
to emphasize their three-
dimensional forms."
Jerry Reed
Non-representational imagery
ABSTRACTIONS
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

43. James Welling
Although these images,
entitled 'Abstract Photographs'
resemble sheets of paper they
are, in fact, made from
f
ilo
(phyllo) pastry dough.
Welling has also experimented
with other unlikely materials
such as tinfoil, gelatin and
ceramic tiles.
Non-representational imagery
ABSTRACTIONS
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

44. Brendan Austin
Brendan Austin creates
imaginary landscapes out of
crumpled pieces of paper.
- He calls them 'Paper
Mountains'. Austin examines
what we mean by nature and
the way humans have impacted
upon it.
The resulting images appear
both recognisable as
landscapes but also suggest a
sense of arti
f
ice. Humble
materials are made to carry an
important message.
Non-representational imagery
ABSTRACTIONS
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

45. Photography at the Bauhaus was mainly associated with
fi
gures
such as László Moholy-Nagy, Walter Peterhans, Lucia Moholy
and Erich Consemüller. From the outset, photography was used
at the Bauhaus mainly to photograph objects and products in
order to document the works created at the Bauhaus.

46. DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front
BAUHAUS
Architecture

47. DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front
BAUHAUS
László Moholy-Nagy
László Moholy-Nagy was a Hungarian painter and photographer as well
as a professor in the Bauhaus school. He was highly influenced by
constructivism and a strong advocate of the integration of technology
and industry into the arts.

48. BAUHAUS
Architecture
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

49. BAUHAUS
Still Life
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front

50. BAUHAUS
Still Life
DEFINITION 2 - FACADE IS…
the principal front of a building, that faces on to a
street or open space e.g.
“The house has a half-timbered facade"
Synonyms:
frontage, face, elevation, exterior, outside,
annexe, extension, veneer, colour, show, false front