Some Cities

by Victor Burgin

Book Overview

"Our relations with cities are like our relations with people. We love them, hate them, or are indifferent toward them. On our first day in a city that is new to us, we go looking for the city. We go... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520206363
• ISBN13: 9780520206366
• Release Date: October 1996
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.2" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Beautiful marriage of photographs and text.

Photographer and cultural theorist Victor Burgin puts his two talents to good use in this book. Some Cities combines Burgin's thoughts on the way cities live in our consciousness with photographs he has taken in cities to striking effect. Burgin clearly loves his subject. A fine addition for anyone who has enjoyed Burgin's theory (see, for example, "The End of Art Theory") and would like to see how he applies them toward his own artistic expression. Very highly recommended.