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March 20, 2007
A GCI Seminar |
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| Title |
Moments of Hesitation: Situating Citizenship
in the Excess of Fact |
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| Speaker |
Helen Liggett
Professor, Maxine Goodman Levin College
of Urban Affairs
Cleveland State University
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| Location |
Great Cities Institute, Suite 400 CUPPA Hall
412 South Peoria, Chicago, IL 60607
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“I
have been interested for some time in how photographic
images work, more particularly in what makes a good picture.
At the same time, as an urban theorist, I am deeply concerned
by the inability of conventional theory to forcefully
address the issue of what makes a good city. Even Henri
Lefebvre’s powerful claim to ‘the right to
the city’ pales in the light of current urban distress
and the seeming contradiction to that of the persistence
and centrality of cities to making civilized life possible.
This presentation uses photographer Lee Freidlander’s
notion ‘the excess of fact’ to re-conceptualize
the notion of citizenship. ‘It’s a generous
medium, photography,’ he writes. How might that
generosity be applicable to urban life?”
Helen
Liggett is a photographer and Professor of Urban
Studies at Cleveland State University. This presentation
is part of a work in process on “The Image and Urban
Life”. Other current projects include “Let
All God’s People Say Amen”, a community photography
project in collaboration with Morning Star Baptist Church
in Cleveland, Ohio. She is author of Urban Encounters,
a book using images and text to consider the city as a
site of cultural imagery, and co-editor, with David Perry
of Spatial Practices. |
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