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Peter Vanderwarker: Architectural Photographer

Peter Vanderwarker: Architectural Photographer

 

 

Introduction to Peter Vanderwarker.   5:46 min.  Interview:  Raymond Elman.  Post-Production:  Lee Skye. Music: Karen Gomyo, violin – Bach Partita No. 3 in E Major for solo violin.  Recorded via Zoom:  9/18/2024, Miami & Cambridge, MA.

 

PETER VANDERWARKER received Institute Honors from the American Institute of Architects in 1991.

His photographs are in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Addison Gallery of American Art, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

Recent exhibitions include “Sublimation” at Gallery NAGA, 2017; “Seaport Views” at the US District Courthouse in 2016; and “Vanderwarker’s Pantheon,” at the Boston Athenaeum in 2009.

Vanderwarker was a Loeb Fellow at Harvard University in 1997 and earned a Bachelor of Architecture from the University of California Berkeley. He has received grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Graham Foundation and is the author of three books about architecture in Boston.

The videos below were recorded via Zoom, are organized by Success Factor, and run between 30 seconds and 8 minutes. Click on any video. You must be connected to the Internet to view the videos.

 

EXPOSURE TO BROAD INFLUENCES:   3:16 min.

Where did you grow up and what was your first awareness of art of any discipline?

 

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION:    0:46 sec.

Was your mother interested in Japanese flower arranging?

 

DEVELOP A VOICE:   1:19 min.

Edward Hopper didn’t just paint everything in the scene he was looking at. He would combine images from various locations.

 

Editor’s note:  Watch our ArtSpeak video conversation with Phil Grabsky, who made a film about Edward Hopper titled “Hopper: An American Love Story.”

 

OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED:   6:25 min.

What was your path to architecture school?

 

UNDERSTANDS THE BUSINESS OF ART:   3:18 min.

Tell us about the evolution of your vision as a photographer of architecture.

 

CREATES A UNIQUE PERSONAL BRAND:   4:20 min.

Tell us about your projects to document Boston’s “Big Dig.”

 

OVERCOMES CHALLENGES TO SUCCEED:    1:42 min.

Tell us about using a 4 X 5 film camera.

 

INSIGHT & INSPIRATION:   1:00 min.

Our mutual friend, photographer and digital arts pioneer Francis Olschafskie, was instrumental in the creation of the Daguerre Museum in Paris.

 

 

UNDERSTANDS ARTISTS’ NEEDS:   0:53 sec.

What kind of cameras are you using in 2024?

 

SEIZES OPPORTUNITIES:    0:49 sec,

What is the black & white image over your right shoulder?

 

UNDERSTANDS ARTISTS’ NEEDS:   4:24 min.

Do you consider yourself to be a perfectionist?

 

COLLABORATION:   4:28 min.

Tell us about your collaboration with Boston Globe architecture critic and Pulitzer Prize recipient Robert Campbell.

 

UNDERSTANDS THE BUSINESS OF ART:   0:51 sec.

The publishing industry has taken a beating in the 21st century. What was you experience with publishing your books?

 

3. INSIGHT & INSPIRATION:   4:55 min.

Let’s talk about your involvement with maps. Are you aware of Richard Wurman’s reinvention of city guidebooks?

 

TEDx Talk:    11:26min.

Peter Vanderwarker talks about making steel maps

 

CRITICAL THINKING:    1:48 min.

What’s your favorite movie?