PEARL - CADERNOS DO MUSEU #5
[Non-Periodical Publication]
Documentary and Contemporary Photography: Architecture, City and Territory
About this book:
Pearl - Cadernos do Museu #5
non-periodical publication
Author: Casanova, Tiago
Date of publication: 2014
Place of publication: Braga
Publisher: Museu da Imagem, Câmara Municipal de Braga
Number of pages: 16
Size: 21x14,7 cm
Illustrated: Image, Text
Number of copies: 500
Institution: -
Language: Portuguese
Key-words: Photography, Architecture
Notes: -
Book Reference: A1.nPaP.1106
“(...) Known, since the 60's, as the "Atlantic Pearl", the Madeira Island, Tiago Casanova's birthplace, it's the place that interested him the most to explore. Went through the island's spots with the sensibility of a virgin eye, searching for the splendour of natural redoubts, at the same tima that he presents his deep knowledge and aesthetic conscience of Man's intervention in that same Landscape. Between these pair of forces, Nature and Construction, there's the comfort of a viewpoint where we taste the landscape, and the confrontation of a road that bursts into the sea. A natural and urban landscape of the Madeira Island by a contemporary photographer, where it's impossible to abstract from his formation as an architect which here assumes other instrumental formalities. "Pearl" recovers that ethnographic and politic face that some, many fortunately, confer to the artistic pratice. Let's follow Hal Foster's call and let's get back to the Real. A sustainable real, fair and better because it respects the Nature and the Man, one as much as the other.”
Ana Matos
Curator and artistic director of the "Galeria das Salgadeiras"
June 2014
About this archive:
The creation of Cityzines collection intends to strengthen and promote the study and dissemination of author’s editions and other publications linked to the theme of architecture, city and territory, where the image and photography are present in a significant way, with a special interest and focus on the multifaceted richness of urban, architectural and visual culture that characterizes the urban agglomerations and their experiences.
This collection started with a survey more focused on the Portuguese context, but also integrates publications from other countries with a view to internationalization of the project.
The publications that will constitute this collection of the Cityzines project will be cataloged from the following general theme:
Artistic and Documentary Photography: Architecture, City and Territory
It was decided to start this collection by topic A1 - Artistic Photography and Documentary: Architecture, City and Territory, for reasons connected with only two facts: first there is at this time, a greater number of alternative publications pertaining to this topic, according by the fact that they had already been there longer subject specific study through the work of the research line City spaces and Culture of the CCRE group.
As we will see next, we have adopted a sub-theme structure in order to organize the field of alternative publications, covering several areas and formats, as previously described in the general theme of Documentary and Artistic Photography: Architecture, City and Territory. Even though all sub-themes show differences between them, they all fit the general theme and they have in common the focus and the importance given to image/photography, as well as the innovative and/or irreverent stance.
Artistic and Documentary Photography: Architecture, City and Territory
Periodical Author’s editions and other publications (A1.PaP)
- In general terms, periodical publications that reflect and investigate, through the image and /or photography, and in a critical, exploratory and innovative way, the themes of architecture, city and territory;
- fanzines, little magazines on photography: independent non mainstream publications where photography is used as the main visual instrument to perceive, understand and analyze architecture and how people live and appropriate diverse places;
- counterculture or non-mainstream publications focused on social and documentary or contemporary photography and related issues;
Non-periodical Author’s editions and other publications (A1.nPaP)
- In general terms, periodical publications that reflect and investigate, through the image and /or photography, and in a critical, exploratory and innovative way, the themes of architecture, city and territory;
- photo-books or/and artist books specifically more related to the universe of architecture: independent non mainstream publications where photography is used as the main visual instrument to perceive, understand and analyze architecture and how people live and appropriate diverse places;
- photo-books or /and artist books more related with documentary photography.
With this collection we intend to promote awareness and reflection upon art and documentary photography in regard to its conception as a tool to question Architecture, City and Territory. This means understanding Architecture as a broad subject and practice interested in, on the one hand, the real space and its experiences, exploring new spatial forms and architectural codes and, on the other hand, in how architecture operates within larger systems: sociocultural, technical, and historical systems.
The physical collection will focus on Portuguese printed objects only and it will work as a showcase travelling across several places in Portugal and abroad. This catalogue of Author’s editions and other publications will suport its dissemination, being also an important international tool to locate relevant and independent non-mainstream publications related to Artistic Photography and Documentary: Architecture, City and Territory.