Genres
Ghost Metropolis is built from many genres, textual and visual:
Narrative Essays
Prose essays that narrate, analyze, and interpret the past.
Narrative Paths
Sequential collections of narrative essays that tell larger stories.
Findings from systematic research using falsifiable methods to generalize about social conditions and processes.
Visual Genres
Photographs
Still images recorded to photosensitive films and digital devices.
Panoramas
Sweeping views of multiple directions from a single camera position.
Diptychs
Paired images, the combination of which constitutes a visual statement.
Montages
Assemblages of photographs, often with graphic arts and cartography.
Maps
Pictorial cartography, including historic, archival maps, and maps by the author.
Visual Genres
Photographs
Still images recorded to photosensitive films and digital devices.
Panoramas
Sweeping views of multiple directions from a single camera position.
Diptychs
Paired images, the combination of which constitutes a visual statement.
Montages
Assemblages of photographs, often with graphic arts and cartography.
Maps
Pictorial cartography, including historic, archival maps, and maps by the author.
Cartography
Motion Cartography (eg)
Animated Maps (eg)
Video
All motion pictures.
Audio
All recorded sound apart from moving images.
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- Narrative Essays
- Ghost Maps
- Narrative Paths
- The Spacetime Transection: Pico-Whittier, Lakewood-Rosemead, and Sepulveda
- Segregated Diversity: The Geopolitical Economy of Racial Landscapes
- The Founding of Cities in Los Angeles County, 1850-2000.
- Montages
- Maps
- Ruins of Boylston St. Montage by Phil Ethington with Steve Appleton, 1998
- Walter Gordon Collection # 51
- Panoramas
- Thematic Maps
- Photographs