A giant 1804 map of India, made by the cartographer Aaron Arrowsmith and based on data from military surveys, is followed by drawings and watercolors documenting architecture, musical instruments, flora, fauna and people.
Candacy Taylor, a photographer and cultural historian in Los Angeles, is documenting architecture at addresses listed in "Green Book" guides in collaboration with the National Park Service's Route 66 Corridor Preservation Program.
The first images to exemplify street photography were those produced by French photographer Charles Nègre, who used his camera to document architecture as well as shops, labourers, traveling musicians, peddlers, and unusual street types in the 1850s.
Between 1947 and 1962, Mean documented architecture and living conditions in Chicago, particularly on the south side.
The show is arranged partly chronologically, partly by theme, beginning with a selection of artworks, mostly etchings, documenting local architecture.
Between 1856 and 1860, he traveled extensively in Egypt, Sinai, Ethiopia, and Jerusalem, documenting Middle Eastern architecture and culture.
He then undertook a project documenting modernist architecture in Milan, seeking to give the impression in the photographs that time had been suspended.
The book Before and After: Documenting the Architecture of Disaster, written together with Eyal Weizman was published in the same year by Strelka Press.
This collection includes photos documenting the architecture, art, culture, and ethnology of countries in the Middle East and North Africa Central, Southh, and Southeast Asia and Italy, Greecee, and the Balkans.
Jon Miller, an architectural photographer and an owner of Hedrich Blessing, a firm in Chicago that has been documenting American architecture since the 1930s, said he had seen a marked increase in homeowner commissions in recent years.
In the first phase of the project, the group is documenting the architecture from the Eastern Bloc (the socialist states of central and eastern Europe), as shown on Instagram account @socialistmodernism.
