Buscaron Photography

Architectural photography can be broadly considered to encompass views of the exteriors and interiors of domestic, commercial, religious, institutional, and engineering structures, as well as records of the evolution of towns and cities.

Its aim may be to create either visual documents or expressive images for artistic, publicity, or propaganda purposes. Depending on format, carefully calculated camera movements and/or the use of special lenses are required, especially to control perspective.

Although architectural photographs have been made continuously since 1839, the specialized history of architectural photography is of relatively recent date. If the principal conditions for establishing such a history were access to large bodies of original and published work, and a theoretical framework within which to organize material and to situate representative and seminal bodies of work, then these conditions did not exist before the early 1980s.