Cities And Photography

Author : Jane Tormey
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415564395
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities and Photography written by Jane Tormey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 13 : 1135190348
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Cities and Photography written by Jane Tormey and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-17 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Peter Bacon Hales
Publisher : UNM Press
ISBN 13 : 9780826331786
Total Pages : 540 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silver Cities written by Peter Bacon Hales and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This vastly expanded edition presents a lively interdisciplinary history of the first century of urban photography in America.

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Publisher : Steidl
ISBN 13 : 9783958296558
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mat Hennek: Silent Cities written by and published by Steidl. This book was released on 2020-02-12 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Peter Bacon Hales
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780877222996
Total Pages : 315 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Silver Cities written by Peter Bacon Hales and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David William Foster
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN 13 : 0822987643
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.42/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The City as Photographic Text written by David William Foster and published by University of Pittsburgh Press. This book was released on 2021-11-02 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The City as Photographic Text offers the first comprehensive presentation of photography on São Paulo. But more than just a study of one city’s photographic legacy, this book is a manual for how to understand and talk about Latin American photography in general. Focusing on major figures and referencing widely available books of their work, David William Foster offers a unique analysis of how photographers have contributed to our understanding of the megalopolis São Paulo has become. Eschewing a conventional historical approach, Foster explores how best to interpret visual urban life. In turn, by focusing interest on the photographic text and the ways in which it creates an interpretive meaning for the city, rather than rehearsing the circumstances under which the photographs were taken, this study provides a model for productive comment on urban photography as a project of visual meaning with important artistic attributes. As a unique entry in the inventory of scholarly writing on São Paulo, The City as Photographic Text adds to our understanding of the enormous cultural significance this city holds as a world-class urban center.

Author : Victor Burgin
Publisher : Reaktion Books
ISBN 13 : 9780948462894
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Some Cities written by Victor Burgin and published by Reaktion Books. This book was released on 1996 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard I'Anson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781740595407
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Urban Travel Photography written by Richard I'Anson and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Peter Alessandria
Publisher : Amherst Media, Inc
ISBN 13 : 1682033813
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book New York Cityscapes written by Peter Alessandria and published by Amherst Media, Inc. This book was released on 2018-10-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York City holds a special place in the hearts of its residents, but also in the imaginations of people from around the world. From the Statue of Liberty, to the Empire State Building, to the Brooklyn Bridge, New York’s landmarks are as familiar to most of us as our own backyards. Its streets and neighborhoods have become a shorthand for ideas like luxury (Park Avenue, Fifth Avenue), excellence in performance (Broadway, Carnegie Hall), and even an artistic/creative lifestyle (Soho). In this book, Peter Alessandria presents his favorite New York images, including his own personal photography and images created by six top shooters who have made their names on today’s most popular photo-sharing site, Instagram. Packed with bold, colorful, inventive images, this book provides a fresh look at New York’s classic beauty and ever-evolving character!

Author : Anthony W. Lee
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520255909
Total Pages : 139 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Weegee and Naked City written by Anthony W. Lee and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2008-04-02 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “While Berenice Abbott, Margaret Bourke-White, and Alfred Steiglitz photographed New York's sleek skyscrapers, Arthur Fellig (called Weegee) documented the seamy underside of depression-era New York. In this extraordinary book, Richard Meyer and Anthony Lee tell a gripping tale, filled with historical detail about Weegee's transformation from freelance newspaper photographer to fine artist with the publication of his enormously successful book Naked City, in 1945.”—Cécile Whiting, author of Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s “Lee and Meyer return Weegee to his 'working world' by exploring the multiple contexts of his production-the Photo League, the tabloids, the exhibition galleries, and the book market. The volume adds an important dimension to our understanding of how Weegee straddled the worlds of popular culture, photojournalism, and left politics."—Miles Orvell, author of American Photography and John Vachon's America: Photographs and Letters from the Depression to World War II (UC Press) “Groundbreaking. Anthony Lee and Richard Meyer delve deeply into a rich archive of media and exhibition history, criticism, and biography to arrive at original interpretations of the most enigmatic photographer in modern visual and print culture.”—Jordana Mendelson, author of Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation, 1929-1939