Paper Cities: Urban Portraits in Photographic Books

Photographic books are almost as old as photography itself, and the city is one of their first and more recurring themes. Cities have been, and they continue to be, intensely photographed under a wide variety of forms, materialities, intentions and genres. This volume examines how a city can be molded through the particularities of a photographic book, suggesting how urban portraits configure an overlooked, yet quite specific, photo-textual practice...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462700583
• ISBN13: 9789462700581
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Leuven University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 6.8" x 9.3"