Cities and Photography

ISBN-13: 9780415564403 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 266 str.

Jane Tormey

Opis

'Cities and Photography' discusses the relationship between people and the city, visualised 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.

Spis treści

Part I: Contexts  Introduction  Chapter 1. Cities and Urbanism  Chapter 2. Photography Concepts  Chapter 3. Photography and/in/of the City  Part II: The Documented City Chapter 4. Walking the City  Chapter 5. Social and Political Practices  Part III: The Metaphorical City Chapter 6. Postmodern Megalopolis  Chapter 7. City and Subject  Chapter 8. Pyschogeographies and the City

O autorze

Jane Tormey lectures in Critical and Historical Studies in the School of Arts at Loughborough University, UK. Her research explores the exchange of ideas between art practice and other disciplines and the ways in which conceptual and aesthetic traditions can be disturbed by and through photographic/filmic practices.