'The City'
(brief)
‘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.’
Over the course of the next six weeks you will become familiar with examples of photographic practice in relation to city life. You will be introduced to a range of critical perspectives that consider photography and the urban environment from a sociological, anthropological, cultural and visual arts standpoint.
You will develop a photographic series (or equivalent) through a process of experimentation, research and reflection. You are encouraged to examine the interplay between urban theory and your own developing body of work.
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| Walter Benjamin |
Walter Bendix Schönflies Benjamin 15 July 1892 – 26 September 1940) was a German-Jewish intellectual, who functioned variously as a literary critic, philosopher, sociologist, translator, radio broadcaster and essayist.
