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.
Download or read book Cities from the Sky written by Thomas J. Campanella and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2001-11-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fairchild to document nearly every corner of the United States, the Fairchild photographers produced maplike shots taken from high altitude along with low-angle, raking views that depict landmark buildings and news events in stunning detail."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Silent Cities written by Mat Hennek and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: German photographer Mat Hennek's unpeopled portraits of some of the world's most populous cities In Silent Cities, German photographer Mat Hennek (born 1969) presents 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, sometimes 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.
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.
Download or read book Silent Cities written by Jeffrey H. Loria and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 453 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A moving, recognizable look at life on lockdown and the effect the coronavirus pandemic had across the world—because every city had a story to tell, and at the end of it all, we were all in it together. In the past year, hospitals filled, highways and subways emptied, landmarks and parks were deserted, our healthcare workers became increasingly fatigued and frustrated, and nearly all human activity paused. In photographs, The Great Wall and The Colosseum look photoshopped, with no tourists in sight. This book is unique in that it creates a visual narrative to document that emptiness as a way to reflect and to find solace amid the shock. A year later, it's something we've all seen and can relate to. This is a stunning collection of the abandoned and austere sights of fifteen major cities throughout the world during the peak outbreak of COVID-19. With their fine art backgrounds and through their network of professional photographers, Julie and Jeffrey Loria worked together to capture the unprecedented lockdown conditions worldwide. The photos show a range of emotions from the physical and psychological weight of caskets being carried to a Rio cemetery, to the completely empty and eerie Times Square and Rodeo Drive, to the patriotic pride in Rome's t-shirt display honoring their Italian flag colors as a symbol of hope. The photographs are not only a reminder of the harrowing pandemic that hushed some of the world’s greatest urban streets, but also proof that across the globe, we were all in this together. Beneath the somberness in these images, there is a hint of beauty amid the stillness, but most of all, there is the presence of hope and promise that we will thrive again. Cities featured include: New York Jerusalem Boston Tokyo Paris Los Angeles Rome Rio de Janeiro San Francisco Washington, DC London Miami Tel Aviv Madrid Chicago
Download or read book USA CITIES Explorama written by Explorama Explorama and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-07 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (EN) Embark on a journey across the United States, discovering the most beautiful photos of more than 140 large and small cities. The Explorama series introduces you to the world through magnificent photographs. This book is an ideal gift for all lovers of travel and beautiful images. (FR) Embarquez pour un voyage à travers les États-Unis, à la découverte des plus belles photos de plus de 140 grandes et petites villes. La série Explorama vous fait découvrir le monde à travers de magnifiques photographies. Ce livre est un cadeau idéal pour tous les amoureux du voyage et de belles images. (IT) Partite per un viaggio attraverso gli Stati Uniti, alla scoperta delle più belle foto di oltre 140 città. La serie Explorama vi introduce al mondo attraverso bellissime fotografie. Questo libro è un regalo ideale per tutti gli amanti dei viaggi e delle belle immagini. (ES) Embárcate en un viaje a través de los Estados Unidos, descubriendo las más bellas fotos de más de 140 ciudades. La serie Explorama te introduce al mundo a través de hermosas fotografías. Este libro es un regalo ideal para todos los amantes de los viajes y las imágenes hermosas. (DE) Begeben Sie sich auf eine Reise quer durch die Vereinigten Staaten und entdecken Sie die schönsten Fotos von mehr als 140 Städten. Die Explorama-Reihe führt Sie anhand wunderschöner Fotografien in die Welt ein. Dieses Buch ist ein ideales Geschenk für alle Liebhaber von Reisen und schönen Bildern.
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:
Download or read book Down These Mean Streets written by Piri Thomas and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1991 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A linguistic event. Gutter language, Spanish imagery and personal poetics . . . mingle into a kind of individual statement that has very much its own sound." --The New York Times Book Review Thirty years ago Piri Thomas made literary history with this lacerating, lyrical memoir of his coming of age on the streets of Spanish Harlem. Here was the testament of a born outsider: a Puerto Rican in English-speaking America; a dark-skinned morenito in a family that refused to acknowledge its African blood. Here was an unsparing document of Thomas's plunge into the deadly consolations of drugs, street fighting, and armed robbery--a descent that ended when the twenty-two-year-old Piri was sent to prison for shooting a cop. As he recounts the journey that took him from adolescence in El Barrio to a lock-up in Sing Sing to the freedom that comes of self-acceptance, faith, and inner confidence, Piri Thomas gives us a book that is as exultant as it is harrowing and whose every page bears the irrepressible rhythm of its author's voice. Thirty years after its first appearance, this classic of manhood, marginalization, survival, and transcendence is available in an anniversary edition with a new Introduction by the author.
Download or read book The Image of the City written by Kevin Lynch and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1964-06-15 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic work on the evaluation of city form. What does the city's form actually mean to the people who live there? What can the city planner do to make the city's image more vivid and memorable to the city dweller? To answer these questions, Mr. Lynch, supported by studies of Los Angeles, Boston, and Jersey City, formulates a new criterion—imageability—and shows its potential value as a guide for the building and rebuilding of cities. The wide scope of this study leads to an original and vital method for the evaluation of city form. The architect, the planner, and certainly the city dweller will all want to read this book.
Download or read book Minneapolis St Paul written by and published by Adventure Publications. This book was released on 2008-02-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: They're cities unlike any others - where urban meets rural, where nature is intertwined with a vast metropolitan area - and you want to remember it. This book is a collection of full-color photographs of attractions and events that reflect the Twin Cities' history and culture. It's a perfect souvenir, a wonderful gift and an ideal way to show your family and friends the unique diversity that Minneapolis and Saint Paul have to offer.
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.
Download or read book Cities Under the Gun written by James A. Hoobler and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now available in paperback, this is a fascinating collection of more than 300 photographs and numerous architectural drawings made during the Union occupations of Nashville and Chattanooga during the Civil War. Illustrated and indexed.
Download or read book Evanescent Cities written by and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-03 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Evanescent Cities" explores obliquely the development of Northern Brooklyn and Long Island City, Queens and will be of interest to scholars, architects, urbanists, writers, photo book collectors and artists.
Download or read book Cities and Cinema written by Barbara Mennel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-03-19 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Films about cities abound. They provide fantasies for those who recognize their city and those for whom the city is a faraway dream or nightmare. How does cinema rework city planners’ hopes and city dwellers’ fears of modern urbanism? Can an analysis of city films answer some of the questions posed in urban studies? What kinds of vision for the future and images of the past do city films offer? What are the changes that city films have undergone? Cities and Cinema puts urban theory and cinema studies in dialogue. The book’s first section analyzes three important genres of city films that follow in historical sequence, each associated with a particular city, moving from the city film of the Weimar Republic to the film noir associated with Los Angeles and the image of Paris in the cinema of the French New Wave. The second section discusses socio-historical themes of urban studies, beginning with the relationship of film industries and individual cities, continuing with the portrayal of war torn and divided cities, and ending with the cinematic expression of utopia and dystopia in urban science fiction. The last section negotiates the question of identity and place in a global world, moving from the portrayal of ghettos and barrios to the city as a setting for gay and lesbian desire, to end with the representation of the global city in transnational cinematic practices. The book suggests that modernity links urbanism and cinema. It accounts for the significant changes that city film has undergone through processes of globalization, during which the city has developed from an icon in national cinema to a privileged site for transnational cinematic practices. It is a key text for students and researchers of film studies, urban studies and cultural studies.
Download or read book TO KY OO written by Liam Wong and published by National Geographic Books. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographer Liam Wong’s debut monograph, a cyberpunk-inspired exploration of nocturnal Tokyo. Featuring evocative and stunning color photographs of contemporary Tokyo, this book brings together the images of an exciting new photographic talent, Liam Wong. Born and raised in Edinburgh, Scotland, Wong studied computer arts in college and, by the time he was twenty-five, was living in Canada and working as a director at one of the world’s leading video game companies. His job took him to Tokyo for the first time, where he discovered the ethereality of floating worlds and the lurid allure of Tokyo’s nocturnal scenes. “I got lost in the beauty of Tokyo at night,” he explains. A testament to the deep art of color composition, this publication brings together a refined body of images that are evocative, timeless, and completely transporting. This volume also features Wong’s creative and technical processes, including identifying the right scene, capturing the essence of a moment, and methods to enhance color values—insights that are invaluable to admirers and photography students alike.
Download or read book The Transparent City written by Michael Wolf and published by Aperture Direct. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs of the Chicago cityscape--digitally distorted and hyper-enlarged, snatched surreptitiously via telephoto lenses--focus specifically on issues of voyeurism and the contemporary urban landscape in flux.
Download or read book Above Scotland written by David Cowley and published by . This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The landscape of Scotland is full of dramatic contrasts. The high, rugged peaks of the Cairngorms look down on the rounded hills of the southern uplands. Wild moorlands run into fertile flood-plains. The coastline ranges from soft sandy beaches and crystal-clear waters to jagged cliffs battered by the fierce waves of the Atlantic.Aerial photography provides unique and striking perspectives on how the people of Scotland have lived, worked, fought over, worshipped, developed and changed this land, leaving no part untouched or unaltered by human activity. The Royal Commission on the Ancient and Historical Monuments of Scotland (RCAHMS) holds the national collection of aerial photography for Scotland with millions of images dating from the 1920s to the present day. These photographs - many of which have never been seen before by the public - tell the remarkable story of a changing nation, from stone circles, Roman remains and ruined castles, to the growth of villages, towns and cities, the rise and fall of heavy industry, the country at war and the proud engineering and architecture of the modern landscape.For the first time in one volume, RCAHMS has brought together the finest images from its collection in a stunning illustration of Scotland's past, present and future.
