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Author: Jane Tormey Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135190348 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 290
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Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different disciplines: across the social sciences and humanities, photography and fine art. This text offers different perspectives from which to view social, political and cultural ideas about the city and urbanism, through both verbal discussion and photographic representation. It provides introductions to theoretical conceptions of the city that are useful to photographers addressing urban issues, as well as discussing themes that have preoccupied photographers and informed cultural issues central to a discussion of city. This text interprets the city as a spatial network that we inhabit on different conceptual, psychological and physical levels, and gives emphasis to how people operate within, relate to, and activate the city via construction, habitation and disruption. Cities and Photography aims to demonstrate the potential of photography as a contributor to commentary and analytical frameworks: what does photography as a medium provide for a vision of ‘city’ and what can photographs tell us about cities, histories, attitudes and ideas? This introductory text is richly illustrated with case studies and over 50 photographs, summarizing complex theory and analysis with application to specific examples. Emphasis is given to international, contemporary photographic projects to provide provide focus for the discussion of theoretical conceptions of the city through the analysis of photographic interpretation and commentary. This text will be of great appeal to those interested in Photography, Urban Studies and Human Geography.
Author: Jane Tormey Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 0415564395 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 290
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Cities and Photography discusses the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It explores how photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way a city is documented and imagined. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different disciplines - across the social sciences and humanities, photography and fine art. This book offers different perspectives from which to view social, political and cultural ideas about the city. It provides introductions to the theories useful to photographers addressing issues relating to urbanism, and to key photographic themes that inform cultural issues central to a discussion of urbanism (e.g. the street, the everyday, social conditions). A series of case studies, featuring international and contemporary photographic projects, provides a means with which to examine a range of issues, for example: regeneration and displacement, power and the institution, visions of modernity and post-modernity, psycho-geographical space. Cities and Photography interprets the city as a space that we inhabit on different conceptual and physical levels, and gives emphasis to how people operate within, relate to, and activate the city via construction, habitation and disruption.
Author: Jane Tormey Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1135190348 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 290
Book Description
Photographs display attitudes, agency and vision in the way cities are documented and imagined. Cities and Photography explores the relationship between people and the city, visualized in photographs. It provides a visually focused examination of the city and urbanism for a range of different disciplines: across the social sciences and humanities, photography and fine art. This text offers different perspectives from which to view social, political and cultural ideas about the city and urbanism, through both verbal discussion and photographic representation. It provides introductions to theoretical conceptions of the city that are useful to photographers addressing urban issues, as well as discussing themes that have preoccupied photographers and informed cultural issues central to a discussion of city. This text interprets the city as a spatial network that we inhabit on different conceptual, psychological and physical levels, and gives emphasis to how people operate within, relate to, and activate the city via construction, habitation and disruption. Cities and Photography aims to demonstrate the potential of photography as a contributor to commentary and analytical frameworks: what does photography as a medium provide for a vision of ‘city’ and what can photographs tell us about cities, histories, attitudes and ideas? This introductory text is richly illustrated with case studies and over 50 photographs, summarizing complex theory and analysis with application to specific examples. Emphasis is given to international, contemporary photographic projects to provide provide focus for the discussion of theoretical conceptions of the city through the analysis of photographic interpretation and commentary. This text will be of great appeal to those interested in Photography, Urban Studies and Human Geography.
Author: Publisher: Steidl ISBN: 9783958296558 Category : Languages : en Pages : 120
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Silent Cities presents Mat Hennek's portraits of some of the world's great cities-from New York, Los Angeles and London, to Tokyo, Munich and Abu Dhabi-yet all curiously lacking people. Conceived and constructed by man as vessels for human activity, these metropolises are transformed by Hennek into monuments of silence: empty, some-times eerie sites for rituals of work and recreation that are yet to take place. Whether the shimmering windows of a Dallas office building, a lush Hong Kong garden of palms, blooms and fountains, the famed pastel terraced facades of Monaco, or rows of trolleys outside the concrete bulk of Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport, Hennek's pictures demonstrate a consistent formal rigor and recast familiar environments as new sources for focus and reflection.His photographs [...] collect so many elements that they have the power of mandalas, representing the universe in a fragment, and provoking a state of pure contemplation: in the simple experience of gazing, everything becomes pure. Laureline Amanieux
Author: Thomas J. Campanella Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press ISBN: 9781568982991 Category : Architecture Languages : en Pages : 0
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Fairchild to document nearly every corner of the United States, the Fairchild photographers produced maplike shots taken from high altitude along with low-angle, raking views that depict landmark buildings and news events in stunning detail."--BOOK JACKET.
Author: Explorama Explorama Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 146
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(EN) Embark on a journey across the United States, discovering the most beautiful photos of more than 140 large and small cities. The Explorama series introduces you to the world through magnificent photographs. This book is an ideal gift for all lovers of travel and beautiful images. (FR) Embarquez pour un voyage à travers les États-Unis, à la découverte des plus belles photos de plus de 140 grandes et petites villes. La série Explorama vous fait découvrir le monde à travers de magnifiques photographies. Ce livre est un cadeau idéal pour tous les amoureux du voyage et de belles images. (IT) Partite per un viaggio attraverso gli Stati Uniti, alla scoperta delle più belle foto di oltre 140 città. La serie Explorama vi introduce al mondo attraverso bellissime fotografie. Questo libro è un regalo ideale per tutti gli amanti dei viaggi e delle belle immagini. (ES) Embárcate en un viaje a través de los Estados Unidos, descubriendo las más bellas fotos de más de 140 ciudades. La serie Explorama te introduce al mundo a través de hermosas fotografías. Este libro es un regalo ideal para todos los amantes de los viajes y las imágenes hermosas. (DE) Begeben Sie sich auf eine Reise quer durch die Vereinigten Staaten und entdecken Sie die schönsten Fotos von mehr als 140 Städten. Die Explorama-Reihe führt Sie anhand wunderschöner Fotografien in die Welt ein. Dieses Buch ist ein ideales Geschenk für alle Liebhaber von Reisen und schönen Bildern.
Author: Richard I'Anson Publisher: ISBN: 9781740595407 Category : Travel Languages : en Pages : 0
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Get into the heart of the city with Lonely Planet's guide to urban photography. With tips and tricks especially for the urban explorer, Urban Photography will help you capture the vibrancy and individual character of any city. Cityscapes and aerial photography, architecture and interiors, graffiti and public art, life on the streets and action shots-all are covered in this informative manual. Technical aspects include how to use composition, lighting and other techniques to maximize drama and interest. Profiled are specific cities and their most photogenic sites-and how to make these much-photographed icons your own.
Author: Victor Burgin Publisher: Reaktion Books ISBN: 9780948462894 Category : Architectural photography Languages : en Pages : 232
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Victor Burgin recalls some of the cities he has known in a way familiar to all who have traveled, by showing photographs and telling anecdotes.
Author: Peter Bacon Hales Publisher: ISBN: Category : Cities and towns Languages : en Pages : 0
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"In 1920, the United States census officially declared that the previous decade had made America a nation of cities and city dwellers. That announcement culminated a process of urbanization which had been accelerating since before the American Revolution. Yet the mathematically verifiable facts of population growth and shift masked a more general cultural process by which the mythos of America's fundamentally agrarian nature gave way to a new self-conception. This study examines that transformation of American culture, by looking at one of the most pervasive and potent vehicles of that change -- the mass produced and mass-disseminated urban photography made during the years between the introduction of the medium in 1839, and 1915, the approximate date of America's irrevocable urbanization. Between 1839 and 1915, many photographers took the city as their subject. Silent about their craft, operating in a time when the photographer was an invisible and effectively status-less professional, these men and women --directly or indirectly-- defined and ordered their contemporaries' understanding of the urban environment, its perils and potentials. Their vision of the city became the heritage of modern America. The contribution of photographers to the evolution of urban America has yet to be fully explored or analyzed. Their influence has come under scrutiny only rarely. Yet like their predecessors, the mapmakers of the 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries, they served crucial functions for their time and culture. Offering not simply facts but information, they were cultural messengers. Their messages both reflected and defined how Americans saw their cities. More importantly, they assisted in the process by which American culture adjusted to its urbanization"--Leaves 2-3.
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