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November 21, 2010
Eric de Maré was a British architectural photographer who worked in the mid-20th century and specialised in the qualities of early and late industrial structures.
Eric de Maré, West Norwood cemetery, London 1968.
In The Canals of England (1950), de Maré celebrated the unselfconscious "functional tradition" of canalside buildings, bridges and bollards, offering the canals as a model of combined beauty and efficiency, eloquently supported by photographs.
The "Functional Tradition" was manifested in brick warehouses and engineering structures which de Maré photographed with a Linhof Super Technika.
Eric de Maré, Bradford Mill on the River Plant at Bocking, Essex, circa 1945 - 1958
His work at the Architectural Review consisted of a series of special issues that celebrated canals, the Thames and, most importantly, the buildings of the Industrial Revolution, which were then ignored or being destroyed as a reaction to the horrors of the nineteenth-century transformation of society.
I haven't seen de Maré's 1975 text Architectural Photography.
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