Brutalism
- Architecture of a particular style
- Concrete with hard edged shapes - defining feature
- Purely based on photographing a style of buildings or architecture
- Metal
- Grouped together to he a whole
- New style of building in 20th century
- Raw concerte
Sheffield brutalist architecture:
- Park hill flats
- Odeon
- Eggbox
Photography of Brutalist buildings include:
- Low angles
- Leading lines
- Symmetry
- Using the rule of thirds
- Deep depth of field
connotations of brutalist photography
- Stark
- Had an impact
- lack of empathy - no narrative or emotion
- Lack of joy, love or caring for others
- Working class culture
- Bleakness of working class estates
- Poverty
- Emptiness
- Communism
- Utopia and the future
- Science fiction
- Post WWII "concretopia"
- Distopia
Brutalist photographers
- Simon Phipps
- Nick Rochowski
Simon Phipps
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