The Lives of Documents

How do photographers select, order, and display their images? Conceived as part of a long-term project at the CCA to examine the contemporary role of photography in the study and practice of architecture, 'The Lives of Documents' prompts reflections on the idea of the documentary as an embedded quality of photography. Tracing the research materials, archiving practices, and production processes of diverse authors, photographers Bas Princen and Stefano Graziani highlight a selection of photographic projects that model our visible world by investigating notions of landscape and its destruction, global infrastructure, intimacy and interiority, and conditions of urban and domestic space and life.