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Cities and photography / Jane Tormey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tormey, Jane, author.
- Series:
- Routledge Critical Introductions to Urbanism and the City
- Routledge critical introductions to urbanism and the city
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Street photography.
- City and town life--Pictorial works.
- City and town life.
- Photography--Social aspects.
- Photography.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 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.
- Contents:
- Contexts introduction chapter
- Cities and urbanism
- Photography concepts
- Photography and/in/of the city
- The documented city
- Walking the city
- Social and political practices
- The metaphorical city
- Postmodern megalopolis
- City and subject
- Pyschogeographies and the city.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-135-19034-8
- 0-203-86285-6
- 1-283-97238-7
- 1-135-19035-6
- 9780203862858
- OCLC:
- 827209055
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