This article is about a study on questions involving concepts of image and city. It analyses the means by which the various forms of space perception influence visual relations users construct from a city. If further deals with various forms of representation of the same space and, by understanding photography as an extent of someone else’s eye, it performs a reading of two photographic essays of São Paulo City, signed by Cristiano Mascaro and Nelson Kon.Este artigo apresenta um estudo sobre as questões que envolvem os conceitos de imagem e cidade. Analisa as maneiras que as diferentes formas de percepção do espaço influenciam nas relações visuais que os usuários constroem com a cidade. Na seqüência, trata das diferentes formas de represent...