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'Constructing Worlds: Photography and Architecture in the Modern Age' at the Barbican

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Time 11:00
Date 25/09/14
Price Free
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With over 250 works, many shown for the first time, Constructing Worlds features 18 photographers from the '30s to the present day, who have changed the way we view architecture & the world we live in

25 September 2014 - 11 January 2015.

This global exploration of 20th and 21st century architecture begins with the birth of the skyscraper in New York City | segueing through the beginnings of modern America | post-colonial Africa and India; industrialised 1960s Europe; the increasing suburbanisation of the First World and the frenetic urbanisation of the new economic powers of Asia | the Middle East and South America. 

The exhibition features over 250 works | many shown in the UK for the first time | which not only document the built world | but delve deeper into the wider truths about society that are revealed through architecture. 

The artists: Berenice Abbott | Iwan Baan | Bernd and Hilla Becher | Hélène Binet | Walker Evans | Luigi Ghirri | Andreas Gursky | Lucien Hervé | Nadav Kander | Luisa Lambri | Simon Norfolk | Bas Princen | Ed Ruscha | Stephen Shore | Julius Shulman | Thomas Struth | Hiroshi Sugimoto and Guy Tillim. 

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