Visual Culture, Photography and the Urban: An Interpretive Framework

Abstract

This paper offers a framework for understanding and reflecting 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.

Keywords

photography, urban, visual culture, methodology

Author Biography

Gillian Rose

Professor, Department of Geography

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