Architectural photography is having a great moment in Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling, which opened last week at MoMA. One of the stand-out images is a mural size print of Ezra Stoller's 1948 photograph of a house by Modernist architect Marcel Breuer installed in MoMA's garden, which was designed by Philip Johnson, with McKim, Mead & White's 1900 super-palazzo, the University Club, as a backdrop.

This Thursday the Architectural League NY is hosting Capturing Form and Place: Architecture and Photography, moderated by Vicki Goldberg. Four noted photographers with contrasting approaches to photographic method and content will explain, through their work, varying aspects and meaning behind portraying 'place.'

Left: Museum of Modern Art, Abbey Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden, 1948; Photograph by Ezra Stoller. Right: Giraffe (Academy of Sciences) 2005; Photograph by Richard Barnes.

Peter Aaron began his career as a cameraman, then worked as Ezra Stoller's assistant. A frequent contributor to books and magazines, he is a contributing photographer for Architectural Digest and has documented projects by architecture firms including Robert A.M. Stern Architects, KieranTimberlake Architects, and Rafael Vinoly Architect.

Richard Barnes looks at architecture in the context of archaeology and the built environment. In addition to receiving commissions from Rem Koolhaas, Norman Foster, and Herzog and deMeuron, his photographs are in numerous private and public collections. Barnes was included in the 2006 Whitney Biennale for his images of the Unabomber cabin.

John Margolies is a photographer, chronicler, and lecturer on American popular culture and design, having logged more than 100,000 miles in search of unique commercial and tourist structures from coast to coast. His numerous books include The End of the Road, Ticket to Paradise and Miniature Golf.

Cervin Robinson began his career as an assistant to Walker Evans and has since received numerous commissions from historical societies, the Library of Congress, architects and architectural publications. An exhibition of his work, By Way of Broadway: New York Photographs by Cervin Robinson is on display through August 15 at the MIT School of Architecture and Planning.

Writer and critic Vicki Goldberg has written about photography for publications including the New York Times, Vanity Fair, American Photo and Aperture. She is the author or co-author of over twenty books including Light Matters: Writings About Photography; The Power of Photography: How Photographs Changed our Lives; and Photography in Print: Writings from 1816 to the Present.

Capturing Form and Place: Architecture and Photography: Thursday, July 24, 6:30 pm, at the Urban Center, 457 Madison Avenue. General admission is $10 at the door. For information, please contact the Architectural League.