Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City
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Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City

  1. 272 pages
  2. English
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Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City

About this book

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 Gedächtniskirche. 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.

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Yes, you can access Photography, Reconstruction and the Cultural History of the Postwar European City by Tom Allbeson in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Art & History of Architecture. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
Routledge
Year
2020
Print ISBN
9781474234962
eBook ISBN
9781000181791
Edition
1
Topic
Art
Subtopic
History of Architecture

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Series Page
  4. Title Page
  5. Copyright Page
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of Contents
  8. List of figures
  9. Acknowledgements
  10. 1 Introduction: contexts and concepts
  11. 2 ‘Architecture of destruction’: visual discourses of ruin photobooks, c. 1944–50
  12. 3 ‘To re-educate the eye’: architectural photography and the housing crisis, c. 1947–57
  13. 4 ‘The face of the city’: photographic pleasures and the illustrated press, c. 1949–55
  14. 5 ‘The world of tomorrow’: urban photography and internationalist visions, c. 1955–62
  15. 6 Conclusion: the transnational optics of postwar reconstruction
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index