Manhatta (Paul Strand - 1921)
Above an image of workers coming to be employed with the construction of the city, a testament to the sheer many power needed to accomplish such a feat.
Lecture Notes
George Simmel (1858)
German sociologist, wrote Metropolis and Mental Life.
Dresden Exhibition 1903
Asked to lecture the role of intellectual life. But reverses the idea and the effect on the city. This leads up to the time of frauds beginning.
Urban Sociology
The city may swallow up individuals, become sucked in and overwhelmed by technology. (Lewis Hine Image 1932)
Architect Louis Sullivan 1856 - 1924
Creator of modern skyscraper.
Wrote 'Form Follows Function" his buildings have high detail but is also functional. Building is split up in sections, very organised design.
Carson Pirie Scott Store
There was a fire in 1872 and opened it up for Louis Sullivan.
Manhatta (Paul Strand - 1921)
Uses text from Whitman's poetry. Image shows city in thrive. Illustrates the work force, you feel the scale of man power needed to build a city. Busy lifes, people moving from A to B.
Antonio Gramsci
Americanism and Fordism (1934) "the eponymous" (De Grazia: 2005:4)
Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin 1936)
Critiques the 'production line' - Charlie messes up the production line and gets accused of bring a communist. Decides to become a waiter and performs which becomes a hit. Art over Industry. MI5 spied on him after over fear he was a communist.
Stock Market Crash 1929
Factories close up, unemployment goes up drastically. The 1% elite pull their money from business to buy stocks for pennies when the crash happens.
Diziega Vector
The idea is he almost flies around the city recording these snapshots. The movie theatre its self is presented as a machine too. Very photographic of its approached, still frames.
Flaneur
Means strollers, lounger, saunterer, loafer. Someone who walks around the city taking it in, but experiences the city from a removed point of view. An observer of the city. Charles Baudelaire says it's a 'a person walks the city in order to experience it'.
Walter Benjamin
Wrote a massive epic where Jr attempts to organise different aspects of city life. Theoretical and analytical examination of porivian life.
Susan Sontag
Solitary walker reconnoitring, stalking, cruising the urban inferno. Gives the photographer access to look.
Daido Mariyama (1970's)
Repeated motif of grainy black and white city. Almost a drunken style. Suggests him investigating the Americanization in Tokyo probably not intentionally.
Flaneuse
Janet Wolff investigates 'check quote'.
"Theory, Culture & Society November 1985 vol. 2, 3 (37-46)"
Arbus (1962) Hopper (1927)
Implication of some sort of darkness.
Suite Venitienne - Sophie Called (1980)
Follows a man to Venice without him knowing and turns it round to investisge the opposite. Venice is an idea that the city is a sort of place where you can get lost but you will always end up back where you started.
Dont Look Now - Nicholas Roeg (1973)
Couple trapped in a state of what is real and what isn't.
The Detective (1980)
Hires a P.I to follow her but she records him following her as well. Tries to appear like she is leading him around.
Cindy Sherman (1977 - 1980)
Untitled Film Stills
Woman again dwarfed by the city. I wanted to use buildings to look like they could be anywhere, its about the imagery of the city.
Weegee / Arthur Felig
Reporting on emergencies of the city, people understand how he got the events so quick.
LA Noire uses 32 cameras to record very detailed expressions so you can judge what they are thinking your self.
City of the Future (1921) mixes with Blade Runner (1982)
Lorca di Corcis Heads (2001)
Investigates the individual with the city. Hides lights in pavement on trip wire and photographs people when they light up. People lost in thought.
9/11 end of flaneur, the falling of the tower is what is so indurias to the Americans.
Surveillance City
Since the twin towers everything is recorded, we now seek machines yo look at pictures on our behalfs. When the 77 bombins occurred, images occurred within minutes of it happening. Back to photography's most basic function - informational.
Andrew Grayen Dickson
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