The virtual and real representation of architecture Photography: changes and standstills

Authors

  • Maria Grazia Cianci Department of Architecture, The University of Studies of Rome Tree, Rome, Italy

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1828-5961/3878

Keywords:

Representation, virtual, real, changes, standstills

Abstract

Photography has always been and will always be the most efficient tool used to capture, freeze and crystalize reality. Digital photography, including the graphical and technological instruments needed to achieve it, allows us to intervene in a dynamic manner on the “static” image. Photography and the analytical technologies are used to represent realities on which we can intervene: they freeze reality and stop changes from occurring. Reality is frozen to represent itself and the subsequent gestural intervention as to create a “change” that isn’t linked to the figurative aspects of the pictures but rather to the dynamic reality. The union of these two processes generates “new” images: an idea is added to reality to imagine the way it should be represented. This contribution illustrates these processes.

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Published

2013-10-01

How to Cite

Cianci, M. G. (2013). The virtual and real representation of architecture Photography: changes and standstills. DISEGNARECON, 6(12), IV / 1–11. https://doi.org/10.6092/issn.1828-5961/3878