Knowles, Caroline. 2018. Researching and Photographing Cities: Getting started. In: S Nichols and S. Dobson, eds. Learning Cities. Singapore: Springer, pp. 9-22. ISBN 9789811080982 [Book Section]

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This chapter raises preliminary issues and questions intended for those undertaking urban investigation through the camera lens. It issues an invitation to think critically about what a photograph is and how photography might be deployed in critical urban research and commentary. Entire cities are un-researchable. Yet ‘slicing’ them for investigation raises issues of partiality, limitation and applicability to the bigger issues of our time. Staring into a crack in the ground might entertain you but how useful is it really in understanding how the social world actually works?

Item Type:	Book Section
Keywords:	urban, photography, critical urban research
Departments, Centres and Research Units:	Sociology
Dates:	Date Event 2 May 2018 Accepted
Item ID:	23378
Date Deposited:	01 Jun 2018 09:11
Last Modified:	11 Feb 2021 17:38
URI:	https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/23378

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