Photographs by architect Denise Scott Brown that helped inform the development of the seminal postmodernism book she wrote with late husband Robert Venturi, Learning From Las Vegas, are part of an exhibition on view at a Manhattan gallery.
The show, Denise Scott Brown Photographs 1956?1966, is being presented at Carriage Trade in Chinatown. Running until 22 December, the exhibition presents pictures by the influential architect and urban planner that were taken during research trips in the 1950s and 1960s.

The showcase follows similar exhibitions this summer at two London galleries, Lethaby Gallery and the Betts Project. A selection of Scott Brown's photos was also exhibited at the 2016 Venice Biennale.

The New York edition is curated by the gallery's owner, Peter Scott (no relation to Scott Brown), in collaboration with Andres Ramirez of Berlin-based creative studio Plane?Site. The photographs are part of the Venturi Scott Brown Archive, which is held at the University of Pennsylvania.
"Her early photography beautifully reflects her curiosity and intuition about the semantics of space and how photography can serve as a sub-discipline of architecture," said Ramirez. "I think this is a crucial question to ask ourselves, in a time in which photography (via Instagram) is taking such a prominent role in design discourse."

Many of the images on view were captured in the 1960s as part of a research excursion that led to the publication of Learning from La...