TASK FOR SEMINAR 1! Documentary and the City,! or,! Where is the street?

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Task:! 1. From the following selection of 12 slides, choose 2 images to describe and analyse. ! 2. When analysing them you are required to use one of the following themes taken from the set text (Florian Ebner, Urban Characters, Imaginary Cities)! - The photographic urban wanderer (as aneur) p.187! - Photographic contingency (the chance moment) p.187! - Direct or Composed pp.188-189! - Scene or Portrait pp.189-190! - The photographic impulse to categorise or to empathise p.193! 3. You are also asked to choose a sentence from either of the texts (Ebner or Scott) that you nd interesting or difcult and to bring this to the seminar. You are encouraged to incorporate this into your text!

1. ! Dorothea Lange! White Angel Breadline, San Francisco! 1933"

2. ! Eugene Atget! The Cabaret of Hell, Boulevard de Clichy! c.1900"

3. ! Andre Kertesz! Pavement! 1929"

4. ! Jacques-Henri Lartigue! Avenue du Bois de Boulogue, Paris! 1911"

5. ! Paul Strand! Blind! 1916"

6.! Donovan Wylie! Citizen, Miami, Florida! 2013"

7. ! Tod Papageorge! Central Park! 1982"

8. ! Bruce Gilden! USA, New York City! 1986"

9. ! Berenice Abbott! Newsstand, East 32nd Street and Third Avenue, Manhattan! 1935"

10. ! Brassai, ! Grafti de la Srie III, Naissance du visage, ! c.1930"

11. ! Henri Cartier-Bresson! Trafalgar Square on the day of Coronation ! of George VI, London! 1937"

12.! Wolfgang Tillmans! Circle Line! 2000"