| Description |
1 online resource (291 p.) |
| Series |
Photography, History: History, Photography Ser |
|
Photography, History: History, Photography Ser
|
| Contents |
Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- 1 Introduction: Contexts and Concepts -- Destruction and Reconstruction -- Modernisation and Commemoration -- Democratisation and Europeanisation -- Urban Photography and Popular Culture -- Photographic Address and Spectatorship -- Overview -- 2 'Architecture of Destruction': Visual Discourses of Ruin Photobooks, c. 1944-50 -- Local Discourses of Ruination in Britain -- Region and Nation in French Ruin Photography |
|
Heimat and Melancholy in German Ruin Photography -- Romanticising Ruins in Normandy and Provincial British Cities -- Photographing Paris, the Invisible Ruin -- Politicising Ruins in Cold War Dresden and Berlin -- Conclusion: Repurposing Rubble Through the Ruin Photobook -- 3 'To Re-Educate the Eye': Architectural Photography and the Housing Crisis, c. 1947-57 -- Photography and Propagandising for Modernist Architecture -- Unité D'habitation, Marseille -- Churchill Gardens, London -- Grindelhochhäuser, Hamburg -- Housing in Cold War Berlin: Stalinallee and Interbau |
|
Conclusion: The Triumph of Photographic Architecture -- 4 'The Face of the City': Photographic Pleasures and the Illustrated Press, c. 1949-55 -- Pageantry, Escapism and Urban Spectacle -- Fashion, Voyeurism and City Images -- Humanising the New Germany -- Promoting Amateur Photography -- Conclusion: Urban Photography and a European Imaginary -- 5 'The World of Tomorrow': Urban Photography and Internationalist Visions, c. 1955-62 -- UNESCO Headquarters, Paris -- Coventry Cathedral -- Kaiser Wilhelm Gedächtniskirche, Berlin -- Conclusion: Urban Photography in an Internationalised Public Sphere |
|
6 Conclusion: The Transnational Optics of Postwar Reconstruction -- The Image of the City and the Idea of Europe -- Urban Memory and Imagined Futures -- Visual Histories of Postwar Reconstruction -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9781000181791 |
|
1000181790 |
|
