Images from two different photographers of the same house (G House by Aoki Jun). One makes "art photography", the other does "architecture photography". Different genres, bounded by different sets of rules. Homma's take or 'angle' is personal, is his own. Ono's is generic: his role is to be invisible, to treat the idealised work of "architecture" -- the idea of it -- as sacrosanct, as possessing some kind of god-like identity. He might as well had been replaced by some other being behind the camera, he could be body-less eye-less nameless. Such is the state of architecture photography since Julius Shulman.
Homma above, Ono below:
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