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Visual Culture, Photography and the Urban: An Interpretive Framework
Visual Culture, Photography and the Urban: An Interpretive Framework

Author(s): Gillian Rose
Subject(s): Cultural Essay, Political Essay, Societal Essay
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: photography; urban; visual culture; methodology

Summary/Abstract: This article offers a framework for understanding and refl ecting upon the various ways that urban scholars have worked with visual representations of city spaces. It suggests that there are three main approaches: representing the urban, evoking the urban and performing the urban. The paper discusses the methodological implications of each of these.

  • Issue Year: 17/2013
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 193-204
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: English
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