Notes on several archival photographs

By Sophie Brones
English

This article presents four photographs from the real estate company Solidere. It aims to show how photography, considered as a document but also as a representation, constitutes a relevant source for an ethnography of urban change in Beirut—a city where, due to successive wars and reconstructions, certain places no longer exist except as images.

  • archival practices
  • photography
  • Beirut
  • representation
  • reconstruction
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