PHOTOGRAPHIC TECHNIQUES FOR ARCHITECTURE REPRESENTATION: A DIDACTIC EXPERIENCE

In this paper we give account of an experience which has been carried on starting from a master degree dissertation and then transferred upon a Bac level third year class in "Innovative Instruments for Design Representation" during the first semester of academic year 2012-2013. As a preliminary path, the students have been given a workshop where different techniques and semantic results in picture taking has been shown and discussed. Document or interpretation? The debate is still alive and more heated than ever, especially given the new opportunities offered by the advent of digital - from the eighties - which actually coincided with the death of historical photography: it is missing the negative - The real "deus ex machina" of the photographic representation has disappeared and has been replaced by a sequence of numerical data. There is no more similarity between reality and its representation, as both were attributable to the negative, the image has been transformed from loyal into disloyal. The digital technology has also brought a great revolution constituted by the merger between the still camera and the camera: the decisive moment and the whole motion share the same instrument. Between documents and interpretation in the work of contemporary photographers of architecture today it preveals the category of the story, achieved through the series of images in sequence. The goal of this experience is to let the students learn to build up a set of pictures which could give a complete coverage of the outstanding details of each architecture they have to deal with. This is important for two different aims: survey for preservation and preparation of a data set for semantic analisys, towards a possible project in the area.