This chapter raises preliminary issues and questions intended for those undertaking urban investigation through the camera lens. It issues an invitation to think critically about what a photograph is and how photography might be deployed in critical urban research and commentary. Entire cities are un-researchable. Yet ‘slicing’ them for investigation raises issues of partiality, limitation and applicability to the bigger issues of our time. Staring into a crack in the ground might entertain you, but how useful is it really in understanding how the social world actually works?.
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Knowles, C. (2018). Researching and Photographing Cities: Getting Started. In Cultural Studies and Transdisciplinarity in Education (Vol. 8, pp. 9–21). Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8100-2_2
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