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Photographs of Silos: On the Contingency of a Modern Photographic Canon

Photographs of Silos: On the Contingency of a Modern Photographic Canon

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Photographs of Silos: On the Contingency of a Modern Photographic Canon

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Photographs of Silos: On the Contingency of a Modern Photographic Canon

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London: European Architectural History Network

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Architectural histories, 2022-06, Vol.3 (1)

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English

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London: European Architectural History Network

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This article re-examines the dissemination of the photographs and their subsequent reproduction of the now-canonical grain elevators and published in the early 20th century. For example, Walter Gropius used them as illustrations for his article in the 1913 Werkbund yearbook, while Le Corbusier included them in Vers une architecture. While the idea...

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Photographs of Silos: On the Contingency of a Modern Photographic Canon

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TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_76bccf754f8f401383ee6c1117fe39a9

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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_doaj_primary_oai_doaj_org_article_76bccf754f8f401383ee6c1117fe39a9

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2050-5833

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2050-5833

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10.16995/ah.8281

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