| Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City Contributor(s): Allbeson, Tom (Author) |
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ISBN: 1474234968 ISBN-13: 9781474234962 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $152.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: November 2020 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Photography | History - History | Western Europe - General - Architecture | History - Contemporary (1945 -) |
| Dewey: 778.940 |
| LCCN: 2020025010 |
| Series: Photography, History: History, Photography |
| Physical Information: 272 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Western Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Examining imagery of urban space in Britain, France and West Germany up to the early 1960s, this book reveals how photography shaped individual architectural projects and national rebuilding efforts alike. Exploring the impact of urban photography at a pivotal moment in contemporary European architecture and culture, this book addresses case studies spanning the destruction of the war to the modernizing reconfiguration of city spaces, including ruin photobooks about bombed cities, architectural photography of housing projects and imagery of urban life from popular photomagazines, as well as internationally renowned projects like UNESCO's Paris Headquarters, Coventry Cathedral and Berlin's Ged chtniskirche. This book reveals that the ways of seeing shaped in the postwar years by urban photography were a vital aspect of not only discourses on the postwar city but also debates central to popular culture, from commemoration and modernization to democratization and Europeanization. This book will be a fascinating read for researchers in the fields of photography and visual studies, architectural and urban history, and cultural memory and contemporary European history. |
Contributor Bio(s): Edwards, Elizabeth: - Professor Elizabeth Edwards is Research Professor of Photographic History and Director of the Photographic History Research Centre. A visual and historical anthropologist, she has worked extensively on the relationships between photography, anthropology and history in cross-cultural environments and on the social practices of photography. Her monographs and edited works include Anthropology and Photography (1992), Raw Histories (2001), Photographs Objects Histories (2004), Sensible Objects (2006), Photography, Anthropology and History: Expanding the Frame (2009) and most recently The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographers and Historical Imagination 1885-1918, (2012). She has published over 70 essays in journals and exhibition catalogues over the years and was recently featured in 50 Key Writers on Photography (2013). She is on the board of major journals in the field including Visual Studies and History of Photography. She recently completed a major HERA/European-funded project on the role of the photographic legacy of the colonial past in contemporary Europe (http//: photoclec.dmu.ac.uk). |