Focusing on photos taken in buzzing cities, with their cosmopolitan cast of hipsters, businessmen, beauties and criminals, Street & Studio builds an engrossing urban history of photography, ranging from early black - and - white pictures from the late 1800s, to elegant fashion photography from the mid twentieth century, to cutting - edge portraiture by contemporary artists. (lehmannmaupin.com)
David Brooks (with help from Mark Dion), Allyson Vieira, and John von Bergen see Minimalism as urban history. (haberarts.com)
A ground - level search of abandoned settlements yields enough artifacts to reconstruct urban history. (scientificamerican.com)