Explore the historical evolution and visual significance of this theme through the extensive archives of Luminous-Lint. By connecting rare images, scholarly research, and diverse photographic techniques, we provide a comprehensive framework for understanding how these visual narratives have shaped the medium across the 19th and 20th centuries. Dive into our networked database of over 130,000 images to discover the pivotal trends, individual masterpieces, and deep historical connections that define this field.
| Introduction |
| 1 | Introduction to cityscapes and the urban context |
| 2 | Early examples of using photography to provide a social commentary |
| 3 | Early street photography |
| Examples |
| 4 | Landscape: Cityscapes |
| 5 | Stereoviews: Themes: Landscape types - Cityscapes - Urban |
| 6 | Cartes de visite: Cityscapes |
| 7 | Cabinet cards: Cityscapes |
| 8 | Ports, harbours and docks |
| Individual cities |
| 9 | Studies of individual cities |
| Photographers |
| 10 | George Robinson Fardon: San Francisco Album. Photographs of the Most Beautiful Views and Public Buildings of San Francisco (1856-1857) |
| 11 | Silas A. Holmes (attributed): New York (ca. 1855) |
| 12 | Charles Waldack: Ohio: Cincinnati (ca 1860) |
| 13 | Thomas Annan: The Old Closes & Streets of Glasgow |
| 14 | Archibald Burns: Edinburgh |
| 15 | Charles Marville: France: Paris |
| 16 | Adolphe Terris: Rénovation de la Vieille Ville de Marseille (1862) |
| 17 | Eugène Atget: The streets and buildings of Paris |
| 18 | Pieter Oosterhuis: Amsterdam Photographié (ca 1860) |
| 19 | Hans Krum: Norway: Trondheim |
| 20 | James Robertson: Constantinople |
| 21 | Leopold Ahrendts: Berlin |
| 22 | Ludwig Angerer: Bucharest (1856) |
| 23 | Albert Felisch: Russia, St. Petersburg |
| 24 | Joan Martí Centellas: Barcelona |
| 25 | Carlo Naya: Italy: Venice: Grand Canal |
| 26 | Kloch & Dutkiewicz (publisher): Warsaw |
| 27 | Frantisek Fridrich: Czech Republic: Prague |
| 28 | H. Béchard: Cairo: Streets |
| 29 | Désiré Charnay: Views of Mexico City and environs (1858) |
| 30 | Eadweard Muybridge: Guatemala: Guatemala City (ca 1875) |
| 31 | Marc Ferrez: Buildings of Brazil |
| 32 | Luis Pastorino: Fotografias de Montevideo (1880) |
| 33 | John Edward Saché: Views of Calcutta (ca 1865-1882) |
| 34 | Konrad Brandel: Views of the City of Pinsk (1882-1884) [Russian Empire, now Belarus] |
| 35 | Album of cyanotypes of Florence, Italy (1880s or later) |
| 36 | Sampson Stereoscopic Co.: New York City (ca 1899) |
| 37 | Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives |
| 38 | Jacob A. Riis: How the Other Half Lives - Book covers |
| 39 | Fritz Benzen: The streets and buildings of Copenhagen, Denmark (ca 1895-1910) |
| 40 | George R. Lawrence: Panoramas taken in the US from kites and captive balloons |
| 41 | Alvin Langdon Coburn: London (1909) |
| 42 | Alvin Langdon Coburn: New York (1910) |
| 43 | Edward Steichen: The Flatiron |
| 44 | Berenice Abbott: Changing New York |
| 45 | Henry B. Goodwin: Sweden: Stockholm |
| 46 | Morrison & Burdekin: London Night (1934) |
| 47 | August Sander: Cologne |
| 48 | W. Eugene Smith: The Pittsburgh Project |
| 49 | Andreas Feininger: The architecture of New York |
| 50 | Robbert Flick: Trajectories |
| 51 | Michael Najjar: Netropolis |
| 52 | Michael Wolf: Architecture of Density |
| Pictorialism |
| 53 | Landscape: Pictorialist Cityscapes |
| Construction |
| 54 | Landscape: Construction within cityscapes |
| Snow |
| 55 | Cityscapes with snow |
| Signage |
| 56 | Examples of signage |
| Wartime |
| 57 | Cityscapes in wartime |
| People within the city |
| 58 | Strolling the city streets |
| Energy of the city |
| 59 | William Klein: Books |
| The contemporary street |
| 60 | The contemporary street and surveillance |
| 61 | The contemporary street and mapping |
| Conclusions |
| 62 | Conclusions to cityscapes and the urban context |
