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Zusatztext "It is difficult to imagine a more comprehensive! exciting or informed discussion of photography and the city. Jane Tormey's theoretical sweep locates itself in Marx and then moves through Lefebvre! Walter Benjamin! Jean Baudrillard and a host of other contemporary critical theorists. Through her work we see the photograph as a "provocation" rather than a presentation of reality! and we unravel its layers to understand the networks of relationships! systems and power that make up the city. Her far ranging discussion negotiates the history of ideas as skilfully as it takes us to a myriad of cities! using photography to penetrate the urban experience rather than simply to represent it. Happily the book is well illustrated and the images add subtlety and depth to her analysis. Tormey's multi-layered account is a delight from beginning to end; a must-read for all who share an interest in cities and photography." -Douglas Harper!Professor of Sociology! Duquesne University! and President! International Visual Sociology Association"Jane Tormey's book brings into dialogue key critical thinkers on the city and photography! engaging as it does so with the work of a wide range of international photographers! and offering close analysis of an extensive range of images from the nineteenth century to the present. Her innovative exploration of how the urban world has been represented! understood and grasped - however fleetingly - in and through the photographic image is rich in insights for all of those interested in the endlessly productive encounter between the two." - Dr Edward Welch! Chair of School in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures! Durham University! UK"What is refreshing about the book is its determination to avoid the more abstract discussions that can characterise some art-historical texts. Here! Tormey's openness to the work of geographers acts to leaven this tendency. The book is extensively illustrated from photographic projects that are discussed at length within the text. Although many of these sources will be new to geographers! they will help to ground and extend their engagement with the conceptual material. The boxed discussions of key concepts and photographers further open up the material to the student reader." - Tim Hall! University of Gloucestershire! UK Informationen zum Autor 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. Klappentext 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, h...
