This exquisite oversized book of Turner’s abstract black-and-white photographs spans 35 years (1974-2009), demonstrating how she has been able to expand a language developed for crisp geometric structures to a variety of modern buildings and enabling the reader to see them anew.
Turner first became known for the book Judith Turner Photographs Five Architects (Rizzoli, 1980), which depicted the “white architecture” of the 1970s of Peter Eisenman, John Hejduk, Michael Graves, Richard Meier, and Charles Gwathmey. Her photographs, like the buildings of those architects at that time, were solidly sculptural and more complicated than they first appeared. Soon, Turner expanded her repertoire by photographing James Ingo Freed’s Jacob K. Javits Convention Center while it was under construction from 1981 to 1983. These pictures retained the elegance and unusual points of view of the earlier ones but incorporated some of the rawness of the building process, such as exposed rebar, the way an artist might in a sketch. But these were not sketches. They were very carefully composed, tightly cropped studies in light and shadow, from unusual angles. They resembled, conceptually, pioneering sculpture of the time.
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