This post is part two of an essay on Paul Seawright’s Invisible Cities project. You can read part one here. Invisible Cities clearly must be considered as part of a tradition of documentary photography and as such it raises a number of interesting questions that I will now turn to. The first of these is [...]
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Exception to the Norm: Representations of Urban Africa in Paul Seawright’s “Invisible Cities” (Part Two)
Posted in On Documentary, Photography Criticism, tagged Africa, documentary, martha rosler, ncad, paul seawright, photography, sebastiao salgado, stereotyping, urban african photography, visual culture on March 16, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Exception to the Norm: Representations of Urban Africa in Paul Seawright’s “Invisible Cities” (Part One)
Posted in On Documentary, Photography Criticism, tagged Africa, art, documentary, guy tillim, invisible cities, ncad, paul seawright, photography, Photography Criticism, urban african photography on March 8, 2010 | 1 Comment »
This post is something of a departure from the usual business on this blog. It is an essay I wrote on Paul Seawright, focusing in particular on his Invisible Cities work. This work comprises of photographs taken over a three-year period in sub-Saharan African cities. In many senses the work goes against the grain of [...]
