Thermal baths in Vals, by Peter Zumthor. Photograph: Fernando Guerra.
Curated by Luís Santiago Baptista, the exhibition Fernando Guerra: X-Ray of a photographic practice will open next Tuesday, July 11, at 7 p.m., at CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém. The exhibition will feature a three voice narrated text written by me on the debate about the definition of architectural photography.
"The debate is already long; it counts over a century and a half of intense exchanges of arguments and appears still to raise different voices. The history of architectural photography melds with the history of photography, but there appears to be no consensus regarding the definition of the category or genre, namely the difference that exists between a photograph of architecture representing a determinate work of architecture and an artistic photograph (a work of art) which has the architectural work or the built landscape as object of its representation (or model of reality). One hears both parties." (Excerpt from "Script for a debate about the definition of architectural photography".)