Building Images: Seventy Years of Photography at Hedrich Blessing

Building Images: Seventy Years of Photography at Hedrich Blessing by Hiss, Tony. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780811826570.

Nobody can make a building soar like the architectural photographers of Hedrich Blessing. Since 1930, they have been the worlds messenger of modern architecture. Based in Chicago, the architectural photography firm has achieved an international reputation that extends far beyond its regional association, and has made them the photographers of choice for some of the greatest architects of our time. Coinciding with a major retrospective at the Chicago Historical Society, Building Images: Seventy Years of Photography at Hedrich Blessing chronicles the history of this groundbreaking firm with close to 150 dazzling shots of architectural and design masterpieces by such greats as Mies van der Rohe, Frank Lloyd Wright, Albert Kahn, Eliel Saarinen, Bruce Graham, and many more. Architectural historian and memoirist Tony Hiss contributes a lyrical, insightful essay on what makes the assiduous photographers of Hedrich Blessing rise above the rest. Building Images brings the majesty, nuance, and poetry of our eras great buildings to light with these indelible photographs.