University of Chicago Architecture Black and White Photography
Modern Campus Facade Reduced to Windows, Lines and Geometry
The name is almost secondary at first. What caught my attention was the structure above it—a disciplined grid of windows, vertical divisions and broad horizontal bands that turns this University of Chicago building into a study of repetition.
I photographed the facade tightly, leaving out the street and most of the surrounding environment. That changes the scale of the building. Instead of reading immediately as a university campus, it becomes an arrangement of rectangles, dark windows and architectural lines. Only when my eye reaches the lettering across the lower section does the location reveal itself clearly.
Black and white made sense because colour would have added very little to what interested me. The contrast between the lighter exterior panels and deep window openings creates the rhythm. Strong sunlight adds another layer, throwing narrow shadows from projecting architectural details and giving an otherwise orderly facade more depth.
I am often drawn to buildings this way. I do not necessarily need the entire structure to make an architectural photograph. Sometimes one carefully framed section says more about the design than a wider view ever could.
Here, the University of Chicago name anchors the photograph to a specific place, but the image is equally about modern architecture itself—the repetition, proportion and quiet precision that can emerge from something as ordinary as rows of windows across a building facade.
© Dan Kosmayer, 2011
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Every photograph in my collection comes from my own travels, explorations, and years behind the camera.
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