De la ciudad al aire comprimido. Génesis de la fotografía moderna de arquitectura

Abstract

Before architects resorted to photographers to spread their work internationally, photography, whose practice has been tied to architecture since its beginnings, played a key role in the birth of the modern avant-garde. Perhaps this is a more interesting aspect, since at the end of the 1920's, more specifically between the years 1927 and 1929, a moment of special importance for the definition of the concept of modernity that would be used extensively by the fine and visual arts and, by extension, by modern architecture. Like architecture, in the first decades of the 20th century, photography underwent a radical transformation. Photography evolved from the pictorial images with which the 19th century was characterised to the so-called straight photography, in that the scenic effects were replaced by precision, the sharpness of the image and the indiscriminate use of photomontages as a creative process.