Ten Hélène Binet photographs that capture light and shadow in architecture
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Photographer Hélène Binet and co-authors Marco Iuliano and Martino Stierli have selected ten highlights ? from architect Peter Zumthor's Therme Vals to the Pantheon in Rome ? from a new book about Binet's work.
The book features more than 170 photographs from Binet's career and includes two critical essays based on in-depth interviews.
It is the first time the photographer has discussed her work as a whole, in terms of recurring themes, techniques and how it is evolving.
Binet, who has always worked in analogue film formats, began her career at the Architectural Association in the 1980s at a time when she encountered architects who would go on to global success.
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The first essay, Becoming Binet, is written by Italian architect and academic Iuliano and covers Binet's life, her work and the architects she has collaborated with ? such as Daniel Libeskind, John Hejduk and Zaha Hadid.
The second essay, written by MoMA curator Stierli and titled Positioning Binet, explores how Binet's oeuvre "oscillates between two obsessions: a desire to translate spatial phenomena into two-dimensional images and a quest to articulate the modulation of light on a surface".
Published by Lund Humphries, this book is the first in an Architectural Photographer series that will "celebrate talented architectural photographers and bring them out of ...
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