Unmapping the city : perspectives of flatness / edited by Alfredo Cramerotti.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cramerotti, Alfredo.

Series:

Critical Photography

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography, Artistic--20th century.

Photography, Artistic.

Cities and towns in art.

Architecture in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (82 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Intellect, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Unmapping the City, the first title in the new Intellect series 'Critical Photography', features photographs shot between 2004 and 2008 in fourteen different cities around the world. The images are linked by their shared attempts to define a two-dimensional approach to a three-dimensional built reality, and to address spatial representation and urbanity through art. In representing the cityscape through a flat texture of lines and minimal colour tones, they draw the reader into a conversation about the interplay between reality and its representation. This volume, by significantly challenging

Contents:

Front Cover; Preliminary Pages; Contents; Foreword 1; Unmapping the City: Perspectives of Flatness; A Middleword _Inês Moreira; Bibliography; Back Cover

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

1-283-16269-5

9786613162694

1-84150-451-3

OCLC:

714572249