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Steven Humblet
The experience of reading a photobook is always a rich sensorial one: the weight of the book, its format, the tactility of the paper, the design of the page, the orienta- tion of the pictures on the double spread, they all in uence the understanding of the images the book contains. In the regular analysis of the photobook these material aspects are normally suppressed. The book itself, so it seems, is nothing more than a vessel that contains images and organizes them in such a way that a ‘story’, a ‘his- tory’, a ‘viewpoint’ unfolds. In my experience as a researcher of several photobooks on the city, however, I noticed that the material and formal conditions of the books were able to express an experience of the city that goes far beyond a mere visual description of it. As I will demonstrate in my analysis of two particular photobooks of avenues in New York the alliance between book (printing culture) and image (visual culture) made it possible for the photographic image to translate in visual terms the experience one has when strolling, walking, running through a street.
Urban History
Jane Tormey, Cities and Photography. Abingdon: Routledge, 2013. xxi + 266pp. 60 illus. Bibliography. £85.00 hbk, £25.99 pbk
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Photoethnography of the urban space, or how to describe the urban world beyond words: presentation of a multimedia essay
2014 •
Nadja Monnet
The aesthetics of the city ‑image
Maria Popczyk
In this paper, I will examine the aesthetic implications of the theories which regard the city as an image. Essentially, I will focus on the positions of the two practitioners, Kevin Lynch and Juhani Pallasmaa, who are an urban planner and an architect respectively, in order to confront two very different approaches to the 'image'; namely, an empirical approach and a phenom‑ enological one. I am interested in what the city becomes when it is looked upon as an image and I will reflect on the experiences of the city ‑image in its various aspects. The aim of this discussion is an attempt to outline certain research areas for exploring the aesthetics of the city centred on the image, with the practitioners' theories enabling us to widen the scope of this exploration.
Globalizations
Cities as aesthetic subjects
2022 •
Delacey Tedesco, Matt Davies
This article explores the theory of the subject and of subjectivity in relation to recent debates on the emergence of cities as spaces that are transforming global politics and international relations. Engaging with the contributions to the theory of the subject in the work of Michael Shapiro, Gayatri Spivak, and Jodi Dean, the argument develops an account of the city as an aesthetic subject. In this account, subjectivity is not a property of an individual human but is instead a force and resource emerging through the subject's engagement in the aporetic boundary practices that define and delimit the subject's possibilities. This understanding of subjectivity is then developed in relation to the material metaphors of urban fabric as explored by China Miéville in his novel, The City & The City. The article concludes by revisiting the idea that cities have emerged as crucial spaces or actors in response to diverse global crises, arguing that accounts of cities that reproduce the model of the subject as an individual with defined properties-in terms of the qualities attributed to the city as it seeks to become a node in globalised networks-also fail to account for the politics of the city as an aesthetic subject. This politics is a 'wild politics', unbounded by the borders that seek to contain and separate fiction and fabrication, concept and material.
