Urban landscape photography documents urban life and cities. It started in the late 1800s when John Thomson photographed street life in London. There are several subfields of urban landscape photography including cityscape photography which captures the whole city, architectural photography which focuses on buildings, and street photography which documents people's lives in the city. While related to documentary photography, urban landscape photography does not chronicle historical events and focuses more on random images of the present rather than people's lives.

1. Urban Landscape Photography

2. History
• The photographing of urban life started in the late
1800’s
• John Thomson was the first to document urban life
with his magazine titled Street Life in London

3. Eugene Atget

4. Subfields of Urban Landscape Photography
• Cityscape Photography: When the whole city is captured using
clean and polished lines.
• Architectural Photography: Focuses in on a specific building
or a group of buildings in and effort to document the city’s
architecture.
• Street Photography: Documents the life or the people living
and interacting within the city. Attempting to showcase the
culture of the city.

5. Andrew Prokos

6. Spencer McDonald

7. James Blakeway

8. Tom Manley

9. Peter J Sieger

10. Jim Kruger

11. Deborah Julian

12. Alison McCauley

13. David Solomon

14. Urban Landscape vs. Documentary Photography
• Urban landscape photography is closely related to
Documentary photography… but there are some differences.
• It doesn't chronicle significant events that are historical in
nature.
• Its a little disorganized in that images of random cites,
building and people are taken with no specific intent or
knowledge of the persons life.
• Tends to focus on the present.