Role of the intellectual role in the city
How the body functions in the new modernism
eg. Traffic
Now used to negotiating - the impact on the individual
Collective
Photo montage same time as Freud's psychoanalysis
The subject and his surroundings - fragmented body around apartment building - doubling reference - eyes look back at the spectator
Photography- documentary in nature
Picturing vaunable body in the vast of the city
Imbalance in the city - risk to the bodies - espec. in construction industry
Individual swallowed up in the city
What the individual can do to survive within it
Form follows function - from his essay
Architect - modern skyscraper - his work from 1894
Details from the top of the building - influences of arts and crafts movement
Applying it to the layout of the building - 4 zones - basement, shops, offices
Reflecting and organising the body
How you move within a space
Fire in Chicago - cleared all the buildings - start again
Skyscapers represent idea of upwards of mobilness - the city of a business opportunity - american dream
Imigration - attracts people to it
Silent movie
Paul Strand is a photographer
Photographer - worked for ford company
1.3million dollar ad campaign
Modernist athestic - abstract art
The body becomes part of the machinery in the factory
Production line - the movements are repetitive and machine like in nature
Coming together of body and machine
Gaining active productivity
Production and consumption - not just the works producing it but affordable for the workers to buy them yourself
Chaping plays with this idea
Writes and directs it and stars as a worker on assembly line
Struggles with being part of the machine
Chaos - commenting on this aspect of modernity - critical point of view of the body being swallowed
Deals with it in a comical way but very political
Unemployment goes up dramatically
Difficult social situations
Showcases of cinematic techniques - double exposure, fast/slow motion, freeze cuts
Commenting on Russian society - 1929
Ideal society
Appears in art and literature
Bourgeois - upper class gentlemen
Has time to walk around the street making observations
Strolling and taking in of the surroundings
Being part of the crowd but sitting back and observing interactions
Analytical tool
Applies ideas of Flaneur
Personal memoir but also critical
As a child strolling through the arcades
How city is used by people - how its arranged to maximise the experience
Inside but outside - protected from the outside elements in order to spend
Use camera to record the interactions
The photographer is stealing images from the environment
Looking for moments to identify with individuals in the crowd
Looking for beautiful moments in urban environments
Street photography
The feminist examine the idea - what is the experience of the women in the city
The figure of the Flaneur is male because women didn't have the freedom
Private experience onto the street
Perhaps the only figure of the women on the street either bag lady or prostitute
Stereotype in art as well
Isolated - dwarfed by the ennviroment
The light in the window - much more vaster space than what we see - blackness around her head and body - some sense of dread
In between moment - like a film still
Difficult to pin down the story - up to us to place that story
Following of a man on the streets
Diary style entries - records his move and reflects of his behaviour
Love story on the verge of stalking
Documents his moves
Location of film
Architecture of the city invites a relationship
Able to get lost but also in a space that is defines and fixed
Haunted by image of the dead child - issues of grief and trauma, the timeline - who's actually seeing it
Photograph each other
Almost story acted out and recorded
Investigated in this film
Isolated figure in urban environment
Called Untitled Film Stills
Not sure of story - time and space
Reference to the past in the styling - film noir characters
World trade centre - wouldn't no that from the image
The shops of world trade centre don't look like it unless you no it
Unidentifiable locations - project our experience into those
City journalism - response to attacks of 9/11
Mixture of photographic professionals and people there at the time
Democracy of photographs
3000 images but also archive
Camera angles - below looking up and the building echo film still
Face expression
Art imitating life or life imitating art
Suggesting female experience of the city?
Uncomfortable experience - documented in the future by a person
1930/40s - press photographer
Always appeared in emergency and murder
People believed he was somehow connected to people who have died
Minutes after the crime - only photographer who had short wave police radio
Work collected in a book - developed into a tv series - 8 million stories in the naked city
Film noir documentry style
Investigation of young model - typical film noir plot - very simple
Game at film festival
Set in 1957
Recognised for its design and graphics
City of the future - high point of modernism
Mixing of past and future
Strange mixture of postmodernism
Film noir element with 190s edge
Investigation into public and private through representation of bodies
Illuminated by flash
No exknowledgement of being photographed
Alone in a crowd - city full of people but don't no your neighbours or on the tube
Film like images
Expressions - lost, sense of bewilderment
Drama images
Can't put a label on them
Physical experience of city
Questioning of the line between public and private
Religious grounds of images being published in exhibition
Its ok to do it for art sake, not commercial use of photography
Travelling around on the tube photographing people
Interior of city life
Unaware of being photographed - lost in thought
Haunting quality - wider picture of people alone and together at the same time
Typical of post modern experience
Building so complicated people are constantly lost in it
Micro world - interlinking walk ways but not arranged in way of making sense
Bambament of information
Don't no where to look - uses alot of saturated colour
Depth of field so we don't have a focus - no one in the crowd as a subject of the image
Non prioritised over another
Replicates the experience of being in the city
Weegee images of body on the floor - main attention
Street scene - looking on to a drama but distanced and completely normal and to walk past
No engagement in trying to help
City journalism is the end of Flaneur
No stroller who can remain detached from the city
We are all going to be documenting it
Mobile phone image of twin towers
Upwardly mobile of the american dream
Joining together of body and building in the most dramatic way
City journalism in similar effect in the 7/7 bombers
Machines looking at pictures on out behalf
Always surveyed in the city - could be used against us as evidence
Nominated for the turner prize
Uses footage of the destruction of 9/11 in bbc news
Slows it down and reverses it so we see them rebuilt
Tragedy undone
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