City as Photographic Text

Urban Documentary Photography of São Paulo

AvDavid William Foster,David William Foster

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Del i serien Latinx and Latin American Profiles

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Beskrivning

The City as Photographic Text offers the first comprehensive presentation of photography on São Paulo. But more than just a study of one city’s photographic legacy, this book is a manual for how to understand and talk about Latin American photography in general. Focusing on major figures and referencing widely available books of their work, David William Foster offers a unique analysis of how photographers have contributed to our understanding of the megalopolis São Paulo has become. Eschewing a conventional historical approach, Foster explores how best to interpret visual urban life. In turn, by focusing interest on the photographic text and the ways in which it creates an interpretive meaning for the city, rather than rehearsing the circumstances under which the photographs were taken, this study provides a model for productive comment on urban photography as a project of visual meaning with important artistic attributes. As a unique entry in the inventory of scholarly writing on São Paulo, The City as Photographic Text adds to our understanding of the enormous cultural significance this city holds as a world-class urban center.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-11-02
Mått:152 x 229 x 28 mm
Vikt:526 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Latinx and Latin American Profiles
Antal sidor:248
Förlag:University of Pittsburgh Press
ISBN:9780822946236

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Mer om författaren

David William Foster (1940–2020) was a Regents Professor of Spanish and women and gender studies at Arizona State University. Over his career, he authored more than fifty books, including Picturing the Barrio: Ten Chicano Photographers; El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond: Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil; and Argentine, Mexican, and Guatemalan Photography: Feminist, Queer, and Post-Masculinist Perspectives.

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Foster’s final book on photography offers a compelling introduction to a few relatively unknown photographers in Brazil. It is significant that a writer with such a diverse body of publications over the course of his lengthy career devoted himself to Latin-American photography as his final area of focus.