Conference

29th June - 1 July 2006

The Clinton Institute for American Studies invites for a three-day international conference examining the relationship between the city and photography.[analysing historical, cultural, socio-economic, and technical aspects of this relationship]. The conference will bring together academics and practitioners to examine and illustrate the role of photography in representing urban life and landscapes, and in shaping urban ways of seeing.

Topics to be addressed might include one or more of the following themes:

The technologisation of urban vision

Photography and urban change

Urban destruction and aesthetics of urban ruin

Genre (landscape, advertising, street, architectural, etc)

Space, place and identity

Sexualising and racialising of urban visionn

Documentary approaches to the 'urban real'

Voyeurism and urban spectatorship

Urban surveillance

The role of photographic images in urban environment

The photographic imagineering of city identities

Photography and the City
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