City Lights

City Lights
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A symbol of massive crowds and solitary desires, the city holds promise for all those that pass through it. Its meandering streets, unexplored neighbourhoods and incessant noise create a landscape that captivates the observer. The lights of the city can conceal or reveal it, transforming its appearance hour by hour, offering countless facets to the passerby. While the light of morning pulls the city from its torpor and renews it for the dawning day, the nocturnal illumination plunges the pedestrian into the strangeness of its mysteries, creating a striking and ephemeral beauty. Between the shadow and the light, these original photographs reveal the fragile glow of the city, and help us rediscover the eternal pulse of these great capitals, simultaneously surprising and sublime.

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Victoria Charles. City Lights

Introduction

Africa

Asia

Europe

Oceania

North America

Central and South America

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Business Centre, Moscow, Russia.

While the oil lamp continued to undergo enhancements with various inventions, particularly those of Antoine-Arnault Quinquet and Ambroise Bonnaventure Lange, gas lighting was experiencing its beginnings in Europe in the early 19th century (China had already been using it for a long time), thanks to the discovery in 1792 of a method for distilling coal by Scottish engineer William Murdoch and French inventor Jean-Pierre Minckelers.

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The Hillbrow Tower, visible to the far left of this photograph, is a telecommunications tower built in Hillbrow, a suburb of Johannesburg, between 1968 and 1971. With its height of nearly 270 metres, it dominates Johannesburg’s skyline and has become a landmark of the city, evident in the use of the tower as part of the ‘b’ in the city’s official logo.

Mponeng Gold Mine, Carletonville, South Africa.

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