Title: GRASPING THE INTANGIBLE: SOME THOUGHTS ON A PHOTOGRAPH OF DEMOLISHED BUILDINGS
Abstract:In Old Government House the National Trust of Queensland have a display of photographs of the destroyed architecture of Brisbane. I suppose we all have our favourites. The display is intended to be a ...In Old Government House the National Trust of Queensland have a display of photographs of the destroyed architecture of Brisbane. I suppose we all have our favourites. The display is intended to be a call to arms for the public, a shaming of politicians and administrators, and to be a kind of mourning. It is the aspect of mourning and more general issues of history as an affect, which we will address in this short paper. What is our relation with these buildings? What use can we make of images of buildings which have definitely gone forever? For those of us who never saw Robin Dods' New Zealand lnsurance Building on Queen Street, who never even knew that Brisbane possessed such buildings, discovering them in photographs means simultaneously experiencing the joy of finding and the horror of loss.1Read More
Publication Year: 1996
Publication Date: 1996-11-01
Language: en
Type: article
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