Paper Cities

Susana S. Martins is a research fellow of the Institute of Art History and lecturer of the Art History Department at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa. She specialized in photography and cultural studies.Anne Reverseau specialized in Photography and Modern Literature. She is currently a FWO-postdoctoral fellow at KU Leuven.

• Introduction. Paper Cities: Notes on a Photo-Textual Genre Susana S. Martins and Anne ReverseauPart 1 Photo-Textualities, between Experience and Experiment Variétés (1928-1930) and the Surrealist Aesthetics of Urban Picture Spreads Steven JacobsAfter the Portrait? N.E. Thing Co.'s Portfolio of Piles Simon DellPassengers: Urban Portraiture Goes Underground Hugh CampbellThe Rhythms of the Street: The Photobook as Walkscape Steven HumbletPart 2 City Cartographies, from Document to SentimentThe Slavic Court: Lewis Hine and Informal Urbanism in Homestead Chris BalaschakCities from the Sky: Aerial Photography in Select 20th-Century Italian Experiences Annarita TeodosioMultifaceted Portraits of Tokyo in Contemporary Photobooks Cecile LalyUrban Representation in Photographic Books: Emotional City Mapping through The Innocence of Objects Mónica PachecoPart 3 History and the Printed Politics of MemoryNazi Stereoscopic Photobooks of Vienna and Prague: Geopolitical Propaganda Collides with a Distinctive Visual Medium Douglas KlahrRemembering and Experiencing German Cities in Photographic Books after World War II Johanna M. BlokkerPicturing a City: Charles Marville's Albums of Paris Philip GoldswainNotes on the Authors Notes on the Editors

'Paper Cities' successfully adds to the expanding field of studies on the photobook, most notably thanks to the array of thought-provoking case studies which span various cultures, histories and chronologies. The book would be a resource for scholars and students of photography history, art history, architectural history and urban studies who specifically have an interest in space, place, cities, cultural memory and material culture.Alexandra Tommasini, Visual Studies, Vol. 32 , Issue 3, 2017