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This research sought to deepen in the daily journeys taken by women in the urban environment to investigate and collect information that can contribute to the construction of knowledge in relation to their urban mobility experiences. After a literature review on the dimensions related to women's mobility in the urban environment, quantitative analyzes were carried out with data from two surveys, one on a large scale (Pesquisa OD) and other on a medium scale (on the traffic safety of university students with a focus in women). With the results, a qualitative and approximate observation of a group of eleven female university students was made to collect information about their experience and perceptions in relation to their displacements made in the Metropolitan Region of São Paulo. As a result, at first, it was expected that issues of insecurity and the fear of suffering some type of sexual violence would be the main lements highlighted by women. But the way they access the means of public transport, the poor quality of the public transport system, the time they travel, waiting at bus stops and terminals and subway and train stations, in addition to countless transfers, crossed this work. showing how important factors in the precautions taken by the students and the insecurity and fear felt by them. On another way, there was an indication of desire for autonomy and ways of coping with the limitations of urban mobility in the metropolis of São Paulo.

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- Women's Studies, Mobility/Mobilities, Urban Planning, Urban mobility

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the photographic visualization of the Belgian city of Ghent is closely connected to its urban planning. On one hand, the city is transformed according to the logics of industrial modernization with its functional and spatial zoning. On the other hand, the city's historical heritage is rediscovered and many medieval buildings were preserved and restored. The planning history of Ghent is usually described in two stages: first, the "Haussmannization" of the city, the creation of boulevards and vistas according to the model of Brussels and Paris, and second, the return to regionalism and a picturesque sensibility during the preparation of the 1913 World's Fair. The photographic representation of the city seems to mirror this evolution, exchanging the image of the city as a series of isolated monuments for a more sensory and immersive experience. However, a close look at a broad range of images produced by both foreign and local photographers allows us to nuance this assumption. Particularly, the work of Edmond Sacré, who photographed Ghent over half a century, combines a "topographical" and a "picturesque" sensibility. Gand Pittoresque In many European cities, nineteenth-century urbanization implied a dialectic of industrial modernization on one hand and a rediscovery of a medieval heritage on the other. Vast programs of demolition went hand in hand with a politics of conservation, restoration, and reconstruction of individual buildings and entire medieval cityscapes. This was also the case in the Belgian city of Ghent, which hosted the World Exhibition in 1913. The preparations for this event, which had a major impact on the Ghent historical city center, also triggered attempts at the construction of a

- by Bruno Notteboom
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- Architecture, Photography, Urban photography, Belgium

The spirit of a place
Architecture is the central focus of the social and the political structure of urban space. It plays a leading role in the analysis of the many forces which sustain the built area, from architects and financiers to politicians, municipal promoters and property owners, but first and foremost it lays the underlying foundation of our perception of our everyday landscape.

- by Gilad Ophir
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- Visual Studies, Visual Anthropology, Architecture, Art Theory
- by Antonello Frongia
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- Documentary Photography, History of photography, Urban photography
- by Busra Nur Erdogdu
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- Sociology, Gender Studies, Architecture, Urbanism

How to explore photography as a way of problematizing urban phenomena? Is it possible to use different aesthetic concepts, in photography, to expand the dialogue with cities? These two questions guide the photographic research developed as part of the project, "Highrise Living and the Inclusive City", with a focus in São Paulo / Brazil and Lyon / France. The first question highlights the territory and the production of capitalist urban space by photography realized in fieldwork. The second one involves editing and re-elaborating the images, considering the approximation between the research project, local records and photography aesthetic. The High-Rise Project, on the other hand, discusses the contemporary verticalization process and its spatial and social implications in Sao Paulo city, considering a contextual (São Paulo, Lyon) and multiscale analysis model, while incorporating different reading strategies and territory interpretation. The field study, initially organized as a team, resulted in different materials, including the photographic one, from which discussion and editing meetings were conducted by this researcher, considering possibilities for language experiments in interaction with the territory. The series and photographic montages realized allowed a reflection about the relationship between public spaces and paths capturing a specific ambience to the places; and, also, exploring different comparative strategies that highlight, in the four distinct regions, intense landscape transformation due to verticalization. On the other hand, these photographic setting acquire a relative autonomy in relation to the original project, being placed on the edge of applicated use of image and esthetic research with its own characteristics.

- by LUCIANO BERNARDINO DA COSTA
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- Contemporary Art, Phenomenology, Urban Studies, Walter Benjamin
- by Alexandros Daniilidis
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- Cultural Studies, Photography, Psychogeography, Urban Studies

In this chapter we engage with the complex relationships between space, knowledge and power through a consideration of vagueness, vague practices and vague spaces. We argue that interlinked modern processes of the state and capital... more

- by Vincent Miller
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- Sociology, Geography, Jewish Law, Diasporas
- by Jens Ruchatz
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- Periodical Studies, History of photography, Periodicals, Urban photography
- by Jesus Angel Sanchez-Garcia
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- Literature, Urban History, Urban Studies, 19th Century (History)
- by Mónica Pacheco
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- Cartography, Photography, Museum Studies, Place and Identity

Over the course of ten years, during the first Saturday in May, photographer
Zoe Strauss exhibited photos for three hours on cement
pillars beneath elevated portions of Interstate 1-95 in Philadelphia.
Strauss’s street photographs are often violent and unapologetic:
a woman unzips her jeans to show a hysterectomy scar; another
woman huddles to light a crack pipe; a vacant-eyed elderly woman
stands in an abandoned lot clutching a dog, her unbuttoned nightdress
and coat reveal that she is naked. This essay traces the evolution of
Strauss’s I-95 project, drawing upon her writings, reviews of Strauss’s
work, attendance at several of her under I-95 exhibits, and an interview
with the artist. I propose that Strauss’s methodology with I-95 –
how she made and exhibited photographic work – engaged viewers
in the “everyday” of urban restructuring. By “everyday” I mean
the ordinary and messy making and unmaking of lives in the midst
of structural forces often beyond our control. I approach Strauss’s
photographs through the lens of deindustrialization in Philadelphia,
the representational uncertainties that her images evoke, and her
resonance with other social documentarians who offer us ordinary
moments as extraordinary ones.

- by Beth A Uzwiak, PhD
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- Violence, Affect/Emotion, Urban photography, Representation
- by Busra Nur Erdogdu
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- Sociology, Visual Sociology, Photography, Urban Planning

Paint. Buff. Shoot. Repeat is a photographic project that zooms in on the
location and lifespan of street art and graffiti in the urban environment. It is a response to online image banks that often capture street art and graffiti with a focus on the image rather than its setting and arrange photo archives by artist, style or production medium. In opposition, this project uses the method of repeat photography to capture the transformative processes street art and graffiti go through and argues for the capacity of this method to reveal changes on city surfaces.

- by Sabina Andron
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- Urban Graffiti, Graffiti, Urban photography, Repeat Photography

Özet Günümüzün çağdaş kentleri ve megakentleri periferileri ile birlikte bir organik yapı olabilmektedirler. Ekonomik, sosyal ve kültürel açılardan son derece asimetrik dengelere sahip bu yaşam alanları, görsel kültür çağının fotoğraf üreticileri için de ilham verici üretim mekânları durumundadırlar. Megakent ve periferisini fotoğraflayan sanatçıların çalışmaları incelendiğinde iki ayrı eğilim ortaya çıkar. Birincisi, insan algısını zorlayan büyüklük ve güce sahip megakentin fotoğrafları daha soyutken; periferisinde yer alan gecekondu bölgesinin fotoğrafları, yoksulluğu ve yaşam koşullarının zorluğunu sade bir şekilde yansıtır özellikte ve klasik belgesel fotoğrafın gerçekçi izlerini taşımaktadır. Her iki eğilime ait fotoğraflarda asıl açığa çıkan gerçeklik ise çağdaş vahşi ekonomik sistemin megakentte de gecekonduda da insanı mutsuz edip yok sayan doğasıdır. Bu çalışmanın amacı, çağdaş megakent ve periferisinde çekilen fotoğraflarda ortaya çıkan iki farklı eğilimi biçim ve içerik açısından tartışmaktır. Megakentin fotoğrafik imgesine yönelik tartışma 'yüce' kavramı, periferisinin imgesi ise klasik belgesel fotoğraf geleneği açısından incelenmiştir. Görsel analiz, çağdaş megakent kavramı hakkında çalışan en önemli fotoğrafçılar Andreas Gursky, Michael Wolf ve Jonas Bendiksen'in çağdaş megakent fotoğrafları üzerinden yapılmıştır. Söz konusu çalışma, kent fotoğrafçılığı alanındaki kuramsal çalışmalara katkı sağlayacak analizler içermektedir.

- by Suzan Orhan
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- Image Analysis, Capitalism, Photography Theory, The Sublime

I was educated as a city planner and an architect. I am not practising any of these professions anymore due to the fact that they do not offer enough freedom during the process of creation. I later turned into an artist using mainly... more

- by Murat Germen
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- Art, Visualization, Contemporary Art, Panoramas

The spirit of a place.
Architecture is the central focus of the social and the political structure of urban space. It plays a leading role in the analysis of the many forces which sustain the built area, from architects and financiers to politicians, municipal promoters and property owners, but first and foremost it lays the underlying foundation of our perception of our everyday landscape.
Whether one speaks of commercial areas, state-supported construction, private residential areas, public structures, or memorials—all these not only catch our eye and attract our attention, they become inseparable from our collective subconscious vision of the place and of the period.

- by Gilad Ophir
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- Visual Studies, Architecture, Photography, Photography Theory

Se propone a la categoría de acumulación para describir la expresión física de la ciudad resultante del tránsito de la modernización a la contemporaneidad. Se propone ubicar la pertinencia de esta categoría en distintas aproximaciones a la fotografía urbana, donde se estima que ha sido un tema recurrente. La presencia de esta idea en lo fotográfico habla de las representaciones donde colapsan distintos elementos, formando una heterogeneidad extrema, pero también de la repetición de elementos que cobran una apariencia ordinaria o insustancial. Por último, se explora, por medio de la fotografía, la restitución de una imagen urbana posible de la ciudad de Santiago donde la idea de acumulación se hace presente, mostrando una ciudad distanciada de los discursos complacientes de lo político, lo económico o lo académico.

- by José Ignacio Vielma
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- Urban Landscape, Urban Experience, Urban photography, Contemporary City

In this study, some of the possible causes and consequences of inequalities emerging in cities after the transition from the agricultural economy to the industrial and post-industrial society will be examined with some theoretical and economical approaches. Inequalities always existed throughout the history. However, the primary focus of the essay will be the industrialized and post-industrialized urban inequalities.

- by Busra Nur Erdogdu
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- Sociology, Photography, Migration, Urban Studies
- by Slobodan Naumovic and +1
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- Documentary Photography, Urban photography, Street Photography, Theory of photography
- by Antonello Frongia
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- Documentary Photography, History of photography, Urban photography

One of the most significant photo-books of the 1930s, Berenice Abbott’s Changing New York has increasingly been understood as a critical study of the American metropolis modelled after Atget’s survey of Old Paris. This essay relies on the notion of “transatlantic modernism” to uncover the influence of European as well as American visual culture on Abbott’s work, suggesting a dialectical exchange between documentary and modernist art in her visual language and selection of subjects.

- by Antonello Frongia
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- Documentary Photography, Urban photography, New York City, Berenice Abbott

Learning from Las Vegas, 1972 von den Architekten Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown und Steven Izenour veröffentlicht, markiert eine Wende in der modernen Architekturtheorie. Martino Stierli untersucht die Wirkung dieser Publikation im Kontext des amerikanischen Architektur- und Städtebaudiskurses der 1960er und 1970er Jahre sowie ihre Bedeutung für Bildwissenschaft und Architekturforschung. Dabei stehen Fragen nach der Rezeption des Stadtbildes in der Postmoderne, der Reflexion der Stadt im Medium des Bildes sowie Aspekte der Buchgestaltung im Vordergrund. Fotografie und Film dienten den Verfassern von Learning from Las Vegas als Medien für die Dokumentation des amerikanischen Stadtbildes und seiner Wahrnehmung vornehmlich aus dem fahrenden Auto heraus. Wie ist die Methodik der Autoren von Learning from Las Vegas vor dem Hintergrund einer kunstsoziologischen Theorie und der Pop Art zu bewerten? Welche kulturhistorischen Impulse gingen von dieser Studie aus?

- by Martino Stierli
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- Popular Culture, Urban Planning, Graphic Design, Urbanism
- by Joana Costa
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- Walter Benjamin, Facebook, Cities (Sociology), Urban photography

On Lorraine Gilbert's photographs of Vancouver homes, 1978-1979

- by Anton Lee
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- Photography, Landscape Photography, Vegetation Ecology, Urban photography

"IN'," shortened for"-ing." sounds agile and represents the ptesent progressive form. SILVER PASSIN' and LAST SEEIN' are the rhyming titles, along with for two photo series of Yuraka Takanashi, and reveal "seeing" and "phorographing" of this phorographer. Every phoro here, unmistakably a shot of the past, compels the viewers ro currently experience "a passing moment."

"Mobile landscapes. City in motion or motion in a city?"
An article is an analysis of modes of representation of urban landscape in photography. I state that though a city space formally is still we perceive it as movable in time. We can also share the mobile experience with others. The article is parted into five sections: the introduction reflects briefly on the meaning of the term „mobile landscape” and four short interpretations inspired by four photographs, representative for shifts in history of photography are presented in subsequent parts. These are: city views by Charles Marville and by Polish photographer Karol Beyer, photomontages by Edward Steichen and by Harry Callahan, mobile photography by Polish group „mobilni” and finally – a project based on mobile app (Amsterdam REALTIME). Brief reflection proposed in the article is not a comprehensive survey on mobile landscape,
but rather – can suggest a direction of such study.

- by Marianna Michalowska
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- Urban Landscape, Urban photography, Locative Media Arts, Mobile Photography

Review of Susana S. Martins / Anne Reverseau (a cura di), Paper Cities. Urban Portraits in Photographic Books, Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2016, in RSF. Rivista di studi di fotografia, n. 3, 2016, pp. 138-139.

While the study of quotidian practices and daily experiences is now fully appreciated in western urbanism, it is still at an embryonic stage in the emerging new cities of the Middle East. This paper presents an ongoing research project of social-behavioral mapping of Abu Dhabi's public spaces and its correlation with the existing urban morphology, in an attempt to shed empirical light and update the local public space design guidelines. Photography is one of the observation tools used. However, due to sociocultural conditions, special techniques had to be used. Time-lapse, high-contrasted, undirected street photography was key to visualize both formal and informal activities in the realm of the private.

- by Apostolos Kyriazis and +1
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- Behavioral Sciences, Photography, Urbanism, Morphology
- by Murat Germen
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- Geography, Computer Science, Art, Visualization
- by Busra Nur Erdogdu
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- Sociology, Fashion design, Art, Social Sciences

A. L. Coburn's photographic work remains sparsely studied, despite the great significance which was ascribed to him at the beginning of the 20th century. This contribution analyses his series of urban photographs representing several aspects of London. It applies a variety of approaches, enabling it to challenge the allegorical reading which has been offered by most of the existing research on Coburn. This allows several conclusions to be drawn with regard to both the artistic methods applied by Coburn and the image of the city which he wished to convey.

- by Desmond Kraege
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- Photography, Urban History, Architectural Photography, Urban photography

DOI 10.24917/20837275.9.4.6W artykule analizowane są sposoby reprezentacji miejskiego krajobrazu w fotografii. Stawiam tezę, że chociaż przestrzeń zasadniczo jest nieruchoma, to można mówić o postrzeżeniu jej jako ruchomej w czasie oraz środkami fotografii można podzielić się z innymi doświadczeniem mobilności. Tekst składa się z pięciu części: z wprowadzenia, w którym analizuję znaczenia terminu „mobilny pejzaż”, oraz z czterech interpretacji, zainspirowanych fotografiami reprezentatywnymi dla przemian zachodzących w obszarze fotograficznego medium. Są to kolejno: widoki miast Charlesa Marville’a i Karola Beyera, fotomontaże Edwarda Steichena i Harry’ego Callahana, fotografie mobilne (portal Grupamobilni.pl), oraz projekt oparty na aplikacji mobilnych (Amsterdam REALTIME). Proponowane tu refleksje nie dostarczą wyczerpującej wiedzy o mobilnym pejzażu miasta, lecz, mam nadzieję, mogą stać się początkiem takiej analizy.Mobile landscapes. City in motion or motion in a city?An article ...

- by Marianna Michalowska
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- Art, Urban Landscape, Urban photography, Locative Media Arts

Public space is thought by many to be the defining
feature of the city: a synecdoche that still resonates.
Henri Lefebvre (1) had an overriding concern about the
harmful impacts of capitalism on urban public space.
Although from the 1970s to the 1990s there was a
powerful ‘death of public space’ discourse; in the 2000s
there is a growing realisation that dynamic and inclusive
traditional public spaces have survived and new ones
have been created often through publicly funded urban
regeneration projects. A good deal of academic research
exploring the regeneration of Manchester city centre in
the aftermath of the IRA bombing, is critical of the new
public spaces created (2). I want to focus here on a
different part of Manchester and examine the new public
spaces of the Castlefield area on the south western edge
of the city centre. I argue that the area exhibits some
qualities of what Lefebvre called differential space: areas
of the city which through processes of contestation and
campaigns around counter-projects, resist and reconfigure
the abstract space of capitalistic consumption for use
by ordinary people and marginalised groups. What I
highlight below is how, through photography, differential
space is represented visually, contrasting this with the
way such differential space is largely neglected in painted
artistic representations of Castlefield.

- by Michael Edema Leary-Owhin
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- Urban Geography, Spatial Analysis, Photography, Qualitative methodology

Neste texto se busca compreender o conceito de imagem dialética em Walter Benjamin a partir da concepção de imagem crítica elaborada por George Didi-Huberman. Cabe destacar, que este trabalho é parte de uma reflexão sobre o referido conceito benjaminiano aplicado à produção fotográfica contemporânea que tem o espaço urbano como questão. Essa relação entre fotografia, cidade e imagem dialética se desenvolveu como opção metodológica de pesquisa por dar um contraponto moderno à produção fotográfica corrente, de modo que as questões políticas e estéticas possam ser compreendidas, não como possibilidade de emancipação do sujeito, como ocorrera em Benjamin, mas como potência crítica e reflexiva do individuo em meio à metrópole contemporânea.

- by LUCIANO BERNARDINO DA COSTA
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- Walter Benjamin, Urban photography, Contemporary City, Didi Huberman

Neste ensaio, texto e fotografias se articulam procurando problematizar a relação perceptiva e sensível que se instaura nas metrópoles contemporâneas. Nos fluxos humanos diários diferentes intercâmbios se estabelecem entre imagens, memória e esquecimento. A própria experimentação fotográfica torna-se, de modo ambíguo, uma tentativa de aproximação destes fenômenos e um modo circunstancial de registro.

"Learning From Las Vegas" is arguably one of the most influential texts in theory of architecture of the 20th-century. Since its first publication in 1972 it has been reprinted again and again and translated to many languages. Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown's treatise had, and still has, lasting effect and is regarded until the present day as the starting singal of postmodernism in architecture and urban planning. The authors' thesis and arguments are essentially based on the media of photography and film, on the countless pictures Venturi/Scott Brown and Steven Izenour took during their field research of 1968 in the city of Las Vegas. Despite of this fact all editions but the very first one of 1972 use only small black and white images of poor quality to illustrate the text. "Las Vegas Studio" is the first to present a large selection of these iconic images and film stills in colour, large format and first rate quality. The essays complement the pictures and investigate how Venturi, Scott Brown and Izenour used images to contemplate the phenomenon of the modern city, and forge the link to the architectural practice of the past decades.

- by Martino Stierli
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- Art, Urbanism, Postmodernism, Architecture And Photography
- by Lionel Francou
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- Sociology, Urban Geography, Social Sciences, Photography

Photo survey on the Landscape heritage of Bomida and Uzzone Valley in Langhe Area

- by Marco Introini
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- Architecture, Photography, Cultural Heritage, Architectural Photography

Celebrated Danish architect Steen Eiler Rasmussen wrote of the urban city scape "At the meeting with the sky a luminous figure is drawn". From British artist and photographer Daniel Buzzo, this book is the first of a series of photo studies of people and the built environment. Shot in Hong Kong over 14 days in January 2016, the book features 40 full colour images over 60 pages re-imagining the skyline of the city as the boundry for the sky. Available in a collectable high quality, hard back, photo-book format, downloadable interactive e-Book and as high resolution .PDF.

- by Daniel Buzzo
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- Fine Art Photography, Landscape, Urban photography
- by Schreiber Dines Yara
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- Youth Studies, Urban Anthropology, Urban Studies, Sociability

Propongo aquí una incursión en el universo de la ciudad de San Pablo sobre la clave del “simulacro”, a par-tir de las fotos de Carlos Goldgrub, específicamente su reciente serie Outdoors. Goldgrub es un conocido fotógrafo radicado en San Pablo y nacido en Buenos Aires. Para entender su utilización del dispositivo fotográfico, propongo antes una breve incursión por el mundo de la moda y la publicidad, tal como fue pensado por Benjamin.

- by Marcio Seligmann-Silva
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- Fashion Theory, Walter Benjamin, Urban photography, São Paulo (Brazil)