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Paul Ott was born in Kremsmünster (Austria) in 1965, and did not use a camera until he was eighteen years old. After graduating and completing the compulsory military service, he started working for an industrial and advertising photographer who did not manage to spark in him a passion for the trade. It was in 1988, at the age of 23, while taking photographs for the exhibition Indianer, dedicated to the art and architecture in the Austrian city of Graz during the interwar period, that Ott discovered his true vocation. A year later, in 1989, he launched his career as freelance photographer. Since then he has created an extremely broad repertoire that may include metropolitan aerial views and also details of small models, all within a varied register that moves between the concrete and the abstract. The book Paul Ott. Photography for Architecture gathers this collection of over two hundred pictures, most of them squared, and visually portrays the intimate relationship between the photographer and architecture...   [+]