Simmel is asked to lecture on the role of intellectual life in the city but instead reverses the idea and writes about the effect of the city on the individual.
Urban Sociology
The resistance of the individual to being levelled, swallowed up the social technological mechanism.
Architect louis Sullivan 1856-1924
- creator of the modern skyscraper
- an influential architect and critic in chicago
- form follows function
Details from Guaranty Building
Charles Scheeler
no figures present in his photographic work.
Photographing ford motoring company plant.
Photographing ford motoring company plant.
Severe Dyslexia and bad lecturers make a really good combination to not having a clue what this lecture is about, or what to write. Neither does it help to sit through a totally irrelevant lecture to my course.
Stock market crash of 1923
Factories close, unemployment, Great depression.
"Man With a movie Camera"
explores the role of the movie camera within the city. It expores various types of camera shots, freeze frame, slow motion, double exposure. The camera has access to intimate moments like the bedroom and also the streets.
Charles Baudelaire
"a person who walks the city in order to experience it"
art should capture this
Simultaneously apart from and a part of the crowd
Walter Benjamin
adopts the concept of the urban observer as an analytical tool.
Flaneuse
Arbus/Hopper
shows an inbetween moment, just after or before somehting has happened. Does not say what has happened but leaves it to the imagination.
Sophie calle suite venitienne 1989
follows people round in Venice. Somewhere between stalking and a love affair..........
Venice
City as a labyrinth of streets and alleyways in which you can get lost but at the same time will always end up back where you begin.
The detective
Wants to provide photographic evidence of her existance
His photos and notes on her are displayed next to her photos and notes about him.
Set in Paris
She gets her mother to get a investigator, then she leads him round the city of to places of her childhood.
Weegee Arthur Felig
Followed round the emergency services so he knows when an incident happens, then goes to the crime scenes and takes photo's, he had a mobile dark room in his car. So he could develop the photos instantly and sell to the press.
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