Saturday 15 January 2011

Edwin Smith 1912-1971

I saw an image by Edwin Smith as I was browsing through "Building with Light" by Robert Elwall.  I have not been able to find a copy of the actual image for this blog, but have got a lot from the images that I was able to find.


"Hailed by the poet and architectural historian Sir John Betjeman as "as genius at photography", Edwin Smith (1912-1971) was one of Britain's foremost photographers. At the time of his death he was widely regarded as without peer in his sensitive renditions of historic architecture and his empathetic evocations of place. The recurrent themes of Smith's work - a concern for the fragility of the environment; .........; and a conviction that architecture should be rooted in time and place......."


Ian - more info







similarity with Brassi?






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