John Gollings: The History of the Built World
John Gollings: The History of the Built World was the first major survey of Gollings’s photographic practice, offering a much anticipated opportunity to appreciate the full breadth of his distinctive career and unique artistic vision.
Constantly innovating with photographic technologies, and investigating new subjects with a restless enthusiasm, Gollings has developed a distinctive visual style. Rather than documenting buildings in a way that reproduces the impersonal elevation plans of an architectural diagram, this style typically conveys a personal or physical connection with the structure being photographed, embedding the viewer in dramatic face-to-face encounters with built environments. Using a range of compositional techniques and visual effects to invest architecture with personality, he portrays buildings as lively habitats rather than static monuments.
This exhibition offered a much anticipated opportunity to appreciate the full breadth of his distinctive career and unique artistic vision.
John Gollings: The History of the Built World is an MGA travelling exhibition.
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This exhibition explored over half a century of work from Australia’s foremost architectural photographer comes to the Museum of Sydney