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https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1362| Publication type: | Article in scientific journal |
| Type of review: | Peer review (publication) |
| Title: | A visual imprint of moving air : methods, models, and media in architectural sound photography, ca. 1930 |
| Authors: | Fischer, Sabine von |
| DOI: | 10.21256/zhaw-1362 10.1525/jsah.2017.76.3.326 |
| Published in: | Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians |
| Page(s): | 326 |
| Pages to: | 348 |
| Issue Date: | Sep-2017 |
| Publisher / Ed. Institution: | University of California Press |
| ISSN: | 0037-9808 2150-5926 |
| Language: | English |
| Subjects: | Architecture; Sound; Photography; Models; Architectural Science; Architectural Acoustics |
| Subject (DDC): | 720: Architecture |
| Abstract: | Prompted by an archival finding from the laboratory of Franz Max Osswald, Switzerland's first academic expert in applied acoustics, Sabine von Fischer explores the schlieren technique for photographing sound in sectional models. A Visual Imprint of Moving Air: Methods, Models, and Media in Architectural Sound Photography, ca. 1930 examines how images were used to communicate findings in the emerging discipline of architectural acoustics. In Osswald's persistent experiments in visualizing the invisible phenomena of sound, the social, the technical, and the aesthetic were inseparable. Using photography, Osswald adhered to the paradigm of mechanical objectivity, yet his visual experimenting with phenomena of spatial sound possibly demonstrates an awareness that the senses cannot be excluded from scientific methods. The shadows of moving air in the sound photographs make claims toward their scientific authority, their aesthetic appeal, and their social function as expert tools. |
| URI: | https://digitalcollection.zhaw.ch/handle/11475/1423 |
| Fulltext version: | Published version |
| License (according to publishing contract): | Licence according to publishing contract |
| Departement: | Architecture, Design and Civil Engineering |
| Organisational Unit: | Institute of Constructive Design (IKE) |
| Appears in collections: | Publikationen Architektur, Gestaltung und Bauingenieurwesen |
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Fischer, S. v. (2017). A visual imprint of moving air : methods, models, and media in architectural sound photography, ca. 1930. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, 326–348. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1362
Fischer, S.v. (2017) ‘A visual imprint of moving air : methods, models, and media in architectural sound photography, ca. 1930’, Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, pp. 326–348. Available at: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1362.
S. v. Fischer, “A visual imprint of moving air : methods, models, and media in architectural sound photography, ca. 1930,” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, pp. 326–348, Sep. 2017, doi: 10.21256/zhaw-1362.
FISCHER, Sabine von, 2017. A visual imprint of moving air : methods, models, and media in architectural sound photography, ca. 1930. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. September 2017. S. 326–348. DOI 10.21256/zhaw-1362
Fischer, Sabine von. 2017. “A Visual Imprint of Moving Air : Methods, Models, and Media in Architectural Sound Photography, ca. 1930.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, September, 326–48. https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1362.
Fischer, Sabine von. “A Visual Imprint of Moving Air : Methods, Models, and Media in Architectural Sound Photography, ca. 1930.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians, Sept. 2017, pp. 326–48, https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-1362.
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