PUBLISHED PAPERS
BOOK CHAPTERS & PAPERS
ABOUT THE
MAKING
OF THE
PIRANESI PROJECT:
The digital photography and the Intersection of Pre-photographic
perspective system with photography.
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Just published 2014!
BOOK CHAPTER
from
Giambattista Nolli and Rome:
Mapping the City before
and after the Pianta Grande,
Studium Urbis, 2014. p179-198.
The Building of a Symbolic Image:
The Juxtaposition of Giambattista Piranesi’s Vedute Di Roma with
Photographs Taken 250 Years Later
This paper and the contribution
in REAL VIRTUALITY (below) are my most complete discussions of what
I have learned about pre-photographic artistic composition and
perspective from my work with Piranesi's engraved images.
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Rome Was!
See below for
1)
Book, 2) Film,
3) Exhibition & Prints for Sale
1) The
BOOK
ROME
WAS!
The
Eternal
City
from
Piranesi
to
the
Present
Published by
ORO
EDITIONS
CLICK
HERE:
For
a
2
page
description
of
the
book
CLICK
HERE:
to
access
the
book
on AMAZON.COM
with
"LOOK
INSIDE"
CLICK
HERE:
to
access
Langenbach's
AUTHOR
CENTRAL
page
on
AMAZON.COM
For
those
in
the
UK
and
Europe,
including
Italy,
CLICK
HERE
to
access
the
book
at
AMAZON.CO.UK
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Just published 2014!
REAL
Virtuality: About the Destruction and Multiplication of World,
Ulrich Gehmann and Martin Reiche, Editors,
Transcript Verlag (Germany), 2014. Available
in the USA from Columbia University Press.
Book Introduction
and Description chapter-by-chapter, by the editors.
Chapter 1, part 3:
by Randolph Langenbach
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“OUTSIDE OF THE FRAME: Piranesi’s Perspective and Composition,
Re-explored in the Digital Age,"
Proceedings, ICOMOS, General Assembly, Quebec City, Canada,
2008.
10 page paper ( pdf-700kb)
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2)
The
44
min
FILM
Full
Movie
available
online
on
AMAZON
BY
CLICKING
HERE:
ROME
WAS!
RUINS
ETERNAL
See
Trailer
below
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OFFICIAL
TRAILER
Four
Minute
Trailer
This
film
has
been
created
entirely
from
still
images,
many
of
which
have
been
merged
together
with
the
eighteenth
century
engravings
by
Giambattista
Piranesi.
Piranesi
has
been
widely
recognized
as
Italy's
most
celebrated
artist
of
engravings
of
views
of
Rome.
This
film
is
an
exploration
of
the
changes
to
the
monumental
landscape
of
Rome
over
a
quarter
of
a
millennium
-
well
after
the
monuments
of
Rome
were
already
in
ruins.
It
covers
a
time
when
this
landscape
became
recognized
for
its
aesthetic
and
cultural
heritage,
a
recognition
that
to
a
significant
extent
came
because
of
the
dissemination
Piranesi's
work
over
the
rest
of
Europe
during
the
18th
Century.
This
helped
to
stimulate
the
'Grand
Tour'
which
then
lead
to
the
stopping
of
the
systematic
quarrying
of
the
ruins
for
materials
for
new
buildings.
Making
use
of
the
opportunities
of
the
new
medium
of
digital
photography,
this
show
has
taken
this
medium
into
new
territory
by
taking
the
imagery
back
in
time
by
merging
it
with
the
pre-photographic
art
of
Piranesi
and
other
artists
of
the
eighteenth
and
nineteenth
century.
Except
for
a
brief
descriptive
introduction,
the
commentary
in
the
film
is
entirely
composed
of
historic
quotations
from
the
history
of
the
Eternal
City.
The
music
used
in
the
sound-track
is
entirely
composed
by
Italian
composer
Ottorino
Respighi,
all
of
which
was
inspired
by
the
Roman
urban
landscape.
Most
of
the
digital
images
were
created
during
a
year-long
National
Endowment
for
the
Arts
'Rome
Prize'
Fellowship
at
the
American
Academy
in
Rome
in
2003.
The
Film
ROME
WAS!
Ruins
Eternal
was
created
from
this
material
after
earlier
experimental
work
using
the
animation
features
in
Microsoft
PowerPoint
to
be
able
to
show
the
images
in
a
series
of
academic
lectures
at
the
Academia
di
San
Lucca
in
Rome,
the
Sir
John
Soane
Museum
in
London,
the
Crocker
Art
Museum
in
Sacramento,
California,
and
even
at
the
Turquoise
Mountain
Foundation
in
Kabul,
Afghanistan.
1)
The
EXHIBITION
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Exhibition
at
the
Joel B. Garzoli Fine
Art Gallery
706 Sansome Street,
San Francisco, Ca., 94111
NOW
ON
SHOW
in
2020
CLICK
HERE
to
see
the
entire
exhibition
collection
first
shown
in
2014
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2019: Exhibition
at
the CANESSA
GALLERY
708
Montgomery
Street
San
Francisco,
Ca.
94111
To see the images that were in the show
CLICK HERE
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The Building of a Symbolic Image,
The Use of Perspective, Multiple Viewpoints, and Scale in Piranesi's
Vedute Di Roma Juxtaposed with Photographs Taken in the
Present Day. published in OZ, The
Journal of the Kansas State University College of Architecture, Volume 26, 2004
Justin Helmbrecht and Gregory Thomas Spaw, Editors.
( pdf-575kb)
Table of Contents
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REVIEW:
Randolph Langenbach : Piranesi, invenzioni al digitale
in
Newspaper
Rome, Italy
7 March 2005
in Italian
with English translation
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