Photography and the City - Overview

"In his now famous essay "the work of art in the age of mechanical reproduction" (1936), Walter Benjamin discussed how the camera was the perfect medium for urban spaces, allowing the photographer to walk the streets slowing the world down by purposely stopping and clicking as the world rushed by."

                                                                          Susan Bright, Art Photography Now 
                                                                         (Thames and Hudson, 2005) page.191

Aims and Objectives:

To produce a body of work/ edited series of appropriate images in response to the set brief

Become familiar with examples of photographic practice in relation to city life

Consider critical perspectives that consider photography and the urban environment from a sociological, anthropological, cultural and visual arts perspective.

Examine the interplay between urban theory and our own body of work.