Some Cities

by Victor Burgin

"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 down this street, around that corner. We are aware of the faces of passers-by. But the city eludes us, and we become uncertain whether we are looking for a city, or for a person."

Victor Burgin recalls some of the cities he has known in a way familiar...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0948462892
• ISBN13: 9780948462894
• Release Date: September 2003
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 223 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.5"

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.