The Narcissistic City Ron Jude German photography has led the

German photography has led the world in the reassessment of our relationship to the urban and man-made environment

of memory and imagination

the created becomes the creator

and the solitary

The Narcissistic City Ron Jude German photography has led theWhat kind of gaze does the city license? What kind of gaze does it induce, determine, inform, program, organise? What is the nature of the city as reality, as image and as symbol? What is this object of desire, at once near and ungraspable, fascinating and repulsive, attractive and intractable, necessary and unbearable, intimate and impenetrable, available and inaccessible, that it is for itself as well as for the man of the crowd, for the man in the