Hélène Binet

by Iuliano, Marco; Stierli, Martino

• ISBN13: 9781848225947
• ISBN10: 1848225946
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2024-07-18
• Publisher: Lund Humphries

Summary

Over a period of forty years, Hé lè ne Binet has photographed both contemporary and historical architecture – this is the complete monograph of her work, with two extensive critical essays. Marco Iuliano details Hé lè ne Binet’ s background, from her childhood in the Italian fishing village of Sperlonga and in Rome, through her early ‘ discovery’ of architectural photographer Lucien Hervé , to other significant influences, like the Architectural Association in London where she met Zaha Hadid. The essay highlights in detail Binet’ s approach to photography, her process and archive. Martino Stierli sets Binet’ s work within the conceptual framework of architectural photography, discussing whether an architectural photograph is an inventory of a building or space, a translation into a two-dimensional image or, rather, an image in its own right; an artifact that loosely relates to the original object or phenomenon. The two essays are followed by a catalogue of Binet's work, which is framed within a series of her recurring themes emerged through dialogues between the authors and the photographer.

Table of Contents

1.Introduction to the series. 2. Becoming Binet. 3. Positioning Binet. Catalogue: 4. Traces 5. Passage of Light 6. Animation of the Object 7. Narrative 8. Sequences 9. Abstraction of Space