Maria BOSTENARU DAN, 2011, Destruction: The Impact of Catastrophic Events on Architecture. Safeguarding the Memory of Ruins by Photography, in: e-conservation, 20, NULL
- Author : Maria BOSTENARU DAN
- Year : 2011
- Title English : Destruction: The Impact of Catastrophic Events on Architecture. Safeguarding the Memory of Ruins by Photography
- Journal/Series : e-conservation
- Volume Number (ANNUAL: Counting Volumes of the Year shown above) : NULL
- Volume Number (CONSECUTIVE: Counting all Volumes of this Journal ever published) : 20
- Pages : 67-81
- Abstract in English : The paper deals with the subject of conserving digitally the destruction of architecture in the moment a catastrophic event, either natural or man-made disaster, occurs. Since ruins generated by natural catastrophes tend to be demolished and the urban tissue reconstructed, they can be considered as generated in a moment and removed in another. The conservation of this moment of catastrophe in photographic form survives time, unlike the ruin itself. Some specific cases when ruins were kept consciously as memory are also mentioned. The article closes with a series of approaches by means of artistic projects such as scenographic or landscape installations, which exemplify how access to the memory can be given by relicts of the disaster, as “doors” for a “rediscovered space”. The confrontation of how these issues and the documentary photography are seen today, with digital tools, and the contemporary change of mentalities regarding this kind of photography are also discussed.
- Contents in English : Introduction Conservation in state of ruin Earthquake ruins Fire and demolition Conservation as a photograph Rephotographing Archive photography Stereo photography Virtual heritage Conservation of the memory in the artistic project Conclusion Acknowledgements References