TAKE on Art magazine launched its 22nd issue, TAKE Architecture on 7 February 2019 at The Kila Terrace, Mehrauli, New Delhi hosted by Bhavna Kakar and Sanjeev Batra. The magazine was launched as part of the India Art Fair 2019 pre-inaugural party that attracts the dignitaries of the art world from India and abroad.

TAKE Architecture

Walter Benjamin suggests in the lines that open my notes here, it may not be possible to ‘get hold’ of a building, at least not in the way that it might be possible to get hold of a painting or a sculpture. But through photography one might be able to get hold of architecture. By this I mean, and perhaps the cultural critic Walter Benjamin meant, that while a physical building is owned and used, a photograph of it is able to isolate, define, interpret, exaggerate or even invent a cultural value for it. We might go so far as to say that the cultural value of buildings is what we call ‘architecture’ and that it is inseparable from photography. But what does reducing its relevance in the public eye to an image do to histories of architecture?

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