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Cityscapes - Urban

 

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Contents
Introduction
1Introduction to cityscapes and the urban context
2Early examples of using photography to provide a social commentary
3Early street photography
Examples
4Landscape: Cityscapes
5Stereoviews: Themes: Landscape types - Cityscapes - Urban
6Cartes de visite: Cityscapes
7Cabinet cards: Cityscapes
8Ports, harbours and docks
Individual cities
9Studies of individual cities
Photographers
10George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857)
11Silas A. Holmes (attributed): New York (ca. 1855)
12Charles Waldack: Ohio: Cincinnati (ca 1860)
13Thomas Annan: The Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow
14Archibald Burns: Edinburgh
15Charles Marville: France: Paris
16Adolphe Terris: Rénovation de la Vieille Ville de Marseille (1862)
17Eugène Atget: The streets and buildings of Paris
18Pieter Oosterhuis: Amsterdam Photographié (ca 1860)
19Hans Krum: Norway: Trondheim
20James Robertson: Constantinople
21Leopold Ahrendts: Berlin
22Ludwig Angerer: Bucharest (1856)
23Albert Felisch: Russia, St. Petersburg
24Joan Martí Centellas: Barcelona
25Carlo Naya: Italy: Venice: Grand Canal
26Kloch & Dutkiewicz (publisher): Warsaw
27Frantisek Fridrich: Czech Republic: Prague
28H. Béchard: Cairo: Streets
29Désiré Charnay: Views of Mexico City and environs (1858)
30Eadweard Muybridge: Guatemala: Guatemala City (ca 1875)
31Marc Ferrez: Buildings of Brazil
32Luis Pastorino: Fotografias de Montevideo (1880)
33John Edward Saché: Views of Calcutta (ca 1865-1882)
34Konrad Brandel: Views of the City of Pinsk (1882-1884) [Russian Empire, now Belarus]
35Album of cyanotypes of Florence, Italy (1880s or later)
36Sampson Stereoscopic Co.: New York City (ca 1899)
37Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
38Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers
39Fritz Benzen: The streets and buildings of Copenhagen, Denmark (ca 1895-1910)
40George R. Lawrence: Panoramas taken in the US from kites and captive balloons
41Alvin Langdon Coburn: London (1909)
42Alvin Langdon Coburn: New York (1910)
43Edward Steichen: The Flatiron
44Berenice Abbott: Changing New York
45Henry B. Goodwin: Sweden: Stockholm
46Morrison & Burdekin: London Night (1934)
47August Sander: Cologne
48W. Eugene Smith: The Pittsburgh Project
49Andreas Feininger: The architecture of New York
50Robbert Flick: Trajectories
51Michael Najjar: Netropolis
52Michael Wolf: Architecture of Density
Pictorialism
53Landscape: Pictorialist Cityscapes
Construction
54Landscape: Construction within cityscapes
Snow
55Cityscapes with snow
Signage
56Examples of signage
Wartime
57Cityscapes in wartime
People within the city
58Strolling the city streets
Energy of the city
59William Klein: Books
The contemporary street
60The contemporary street and surveillance
61The contemporary street and mapping
Conclusions
62Conclusions to cityscapes and the urban context
Photographers
Berenice Abbott (1898-1991), Akinbode Akinbyi, Alinari, Thomas Annan (1829-1887), Eugène Atget (1857-1927), Ivan Bianchi (1811-1893), Archibald Burns, Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966), George Robinson Fardon (1807-1886), Albert Felisch (1837-1908), Eduard Flottwell (1811-1862), Marcel Gautherot (1910-1996), Kristian Hude (1864-1929), Knud Knudsen (1832-1915), Hans Krum, Alfred Lorens, David Maisel, Charles Marville (1813-1879), Lori Nix (1969-), William Notman (1826-1891), Ferdinando Ongania (1842-1911), Victor Prevost (1820-1881), Pierre-Ambroise Richebourg (1810-1875), Jacob A. Riis (1849-1914), Ross & Thomson, Camilo José Vergara (1944-)
     
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Introduction
1Introduction to cityscapes and the urban context
2Early examples of using photography to provide a social commentary
3Early street photography
Examples
4Landscape: Cityscapes
5Stereoviews: Themes: Landscape types - Cityscapes - Urban
6Cartes de visite: Cityscapes
7Cabinet cards: Cityscapes
8Ports, harbours and docks
Individual cities
9Studies of individual cities
Photographers
10George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857)
11Silas A. Holmes (attributed): New York (ca. 1855)
12Charles Waldack: Ohio: Cincinnati (ca 1860)
13Thomas Annan: The Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow
14Archibald Burns: Edinburgh
15Charles Marville: France: Paris
16Adolphe Terris: Rénovation de la Vieille Ville de Marseille (1862)
17Eugène Atget: The streets and buildings of Paris
18Pieter Oosterhuis: Amsterdam Photographié (ca 1860)
19Hans Krum: Norway: Trondheim
20James Robertson: Constantinople
21Leopold Ahrendts: Berlin
22Ludwig Angerer: Bucharest (1856)
23Albert Felisch: Russia, St. Petersburg
24Joan Martí Centellas: Barcelona
25Carlo Naya: Italy: Venice: Grand Canal
26Kloch & Dutkiewicz (publisher): Warsaw
27Frantisek Fridrich: Czech Republic: Prague
28H. Béchard: Cairo: Streets
29Désiré Charnay: Views of Mexico City and environs (1858)
30Eadweard Muybridge: Guatemala: Guatemala City (ca 1875)
31Marc Ferrez: Buildings of Brazil
32Luis Pastorino: Fotografias de Montevideo (1880)
33John Edward Saché: Views of Calcutta (ca 1865-1882)
34Konrad Brandel: Views of the City of Pinsk (1882-1884) [Russian Empire, now Belarus]
35Album of cyanotypes of Florence, Italy (1880s or later)
36Sampson Stereoscopic Co.: New York City (ca 1899)
37Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives
38Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers
39Fritz Benzen: The streets and buildings of Copenhagen, Denmark (ca 1895-1910)
40George R. Lawrence: Panoramas taken in the US from kites and captive balloons
41Alvin Langdon Coburn: London (1909)
42Alvin Langdon Coburn: New York (1910)
43Edward Steichen: The Flatiron
44Berenice Abbott: Changing New York
45Henry B. Goodwin: Sweden: Stockholm
46Morrison & Burdekin: London Night (1934)
47August Sander: Cologne
48W. Eugene Smith: The Pittsburgh Project
49Andreas Feininger: The architecture of New York
50Robbert Flick: Trajectories
51Michael Najjar: Netropolis
52Michael Wolf: Architecture of Density
Pictorialism
53Landscape: Pictorialist Cityscapes
Construction
54Landscape: Construction within cityscapes
Snow
55Cityscapes with snow
Signage
56Examples of signage
Wartime
57Cityscapes in wartime
People within the city
58Strolling the city streets
Energy of the city
59William Klein: Books
The contemporary street
60The contemporary street and surveillance
61The contemporary street and mapping
Conclusions
62Conclusions to cityscapes and the urban context

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