Hélène Binet

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
(Redirected from Helene Binet)
Jump to navigation Jump to search
Hélène Binet
File:Helene Binet.jpg
Hélène Binet in Prague, 1991
Born1959 (age 66–67)
Sorengo, Switzerland
Occupationarchitectural photographer
Websitewww.helenebinet.com

Hélène Binet (born 1959) is a Swiss-French architectural photographer based in London, who is also one of the leading architectural photographers in the world.[1][2] She is most known for her work with architects Daniel Libeskind, Peter Zumthor and Zaha Hadid, and has published books on works of several architects.[3]

Binet was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Institute of British Architects in 2008[3] and the Julius Shulman Institute Excellence in Photography Award in 2015.[4][5] Her work is held in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York[6] and the Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.[7]

Biography

[edit | edit source]
File:Museum of World Culture Göteborg entrance.jpeg
Museum of World Culture, Gothenburg, Sweden (Hélène Binet photograph)
File:Exhibition at Power Station of Art.jpg
Binet exhibition at the Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China

Binet was born in 1959 in Sorengo, Switzerland to Swiss and French parents.[8] She studied photography at the Istituto Europeo di Design in Rome, where she grew up.[2] She worked as a photographer at the Grand Théâtre de Genève, an opera house in Geneva, Switzerland, where she photographed various performances for two years, before turning to architectural photography,[3] encouraged by architect, Daniel Libeskind, who believed, "she exposes architecture’s achievements, strength, pathos and fragility."[2]

Binet works exclusively with photographic film.[8]

She has worked with Raoul Bunschoten, Caruso St John, David Chipperfield, Tony Fretton, Zaha Hadid, Zvi Hecker, John Hejduk, Coop Himmelb(l)au, Daniel Libeskind, the architect Peter Cook, Sauerbruch Hutton, Peter Zumthor, and Josef Paul Kleihues among others, besides publishing books on buildings by Le Corbusier, Alvar Aalto, Sigurd Lewerentz, and Dimitris Pikionis.[3][9]

Personal life

[edit | edit source]

Binet had a house on Osea Island in the River Blackwater Estuary in Essex.[10] She is married to Raoul Bunschoten, and the couple live in London with their two children, Izaak and Saskia Ada.[3][8]

Publications

[edit | edit source]
  • The Inns of Court. with Jill Allibone, David Evans. Black Dog Publishing Limited, 1996. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
  • Helene Binet: Seven Projects, with Zaha Hadid, Daniel Libeskind, Mark Rappolt, Shine Gallery. Guiding Light, 2002. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
  • Photographs. Phaidon Inc. Ltd, 2009. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
  • Helene Binet: Composing Space: The Photographs of Helene Binet. Phaidon Press, 2012. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
For architects
  • A passage through silence and light, Daniel Libeskind, Raoul Bunschoten. Black Dog, 1997. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..
  • The House of the Book, Peter Cook, Zvi Hecker, John Hejduk. Black Dog, 1999,
  • Architecture of Zaha Hadid in photographs (with Hubertus von Amelunxen), Lars Müller, 2000.
  • Holocaust Mahnmal Berlin: Eisenman Architects, Hanno Rauterberg, Lukas Wassmann. Müller, 2005. Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value)..

Awards

[edit | edit source]

Collections

[edit | edit source]

Binet's work is held in the following permanent collections:

References

[edit | edit source]
  1. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  2. ^ a b c Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  3. ^ a b c d e f Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  4. ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  5. ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  6. ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  7. ^ a b Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  8. ^ a b c Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  9. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
  10. ^ Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Configuration at line 2172: attempt to index field '?' (a nil value).
[edit | edit source]
Error creating thumbnail: File missing
Wikimedia Commons has media related to [[commons:Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 506: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).|Lua error in Module:WikidataIB at line 506: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).]].
File:Wikiquote-logo.svg
Wikiquote has quotations related to Hélène Binet.

Lua error in Module:Authority_control at line 153: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).

Retrieved from "http://70.231.62.181/index.php?title=Hélène_Binet&oldid=3881790"