Látni és birtokolni a várost: fényképarchívumok és a múlt képei
Seeing and Owning the City: Photo-Archives and the Pictures of the Past

Summary/Abstract: From the second half of the 2010s, an increasing number of cities have prepared their online archives which thematise the city’s past through photographs, narratives, maps, etc. All these have been prepared primarily for the locals and are based on dialogue: the information shared by the institutions can be supplemented by the users, providing examples for living archives. This article starts from the theoretical background of the city’s visual experience, then calls attention to some Western European and US websites offering the digitized images of cities. These archives can be studied from multiple perspectives, since they also show, besides the past of the localities, how the city streets and squares were seen by the inhabitants 100 or 150 years ago.

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