Helene Binet
Photographs
Published in June 2010
Book
Hardback
160 pages
978-0-7148-4942-3 (ISBN)
Description
This book is an elegant overview of Binet's career, bringing together black & white and color work. It is divided into thematic sections, each highlighting specific architects and designers as well as a particular aspect of their work that Binet's dramatic photographs draw out and present. Interludes of more personal work, primarily abstract landscapes, show a different aspect of Binet's work. Accompanying texts and conversations will highlight the ideas that inform Binet's work, including abstraction, the importance of materiality and light, the experience of space, and the emotional power of architecture.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Illustrations
Illustrations, unspecified
Dimensions
Height: 290 mm
Width: 250 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-7148-4942-3 (9780714849423)
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Person
Helene Binet was born in 1959 in Switzerland. After studying photography at the Instituto Europeo de Design in Rome, she worked for two years as a photographer at the Grand Theatre de Geneve before coming to architectural photographs. She has worked with David Chipperfield, Tony Fretton, Zaha Hadid, Peter Zumthor, Sauerbruch Hutton, Coop Himmelb(l)au, and many others, photographing some of the world's most spectacular, influential, and powerful buildings. A master at capturing what Le Corbusier called the 'masterful, correct, and magnificent play of volumes brought together in light', Binet takes pictures that give the viewer a unique and compelling experience of space.
Content
Introduction Conversation Photographs of architecture, landscape and the city John Hejduk Zaha Hadid Daniel Libeskind Raoul Bunschoten Peter Zumthor Le Corbusier Caruso St John Alvar Aalto Demetris Pikionis Peter Eisenman Geoffrey Bawa Sigurd Lewerentz