George Simmel ( 1858-1918)
German sociologist
Dresden exhibition 1903
Urban sociology
Lewis Hine
Documentary nature
He is picturing a venerable body in relation to the vastness of the city. The imbalance and risk of this action. Looking at the resistance of the individual. Emphasising the indervidual being swallowed by the city.
Architect Louis sullivan (1856-1924)
Creator of the modern sky scraper
Carson prairie scott store in Chicago
Enables for his to start again. Sy scrapers represent the idea of upwardly mobile city of business opportunity.
Manhatta film
Charles Sheeler
Ford motor company's plant at river rouge, Detroit
People thinking at this time how it looks and how it effects the people who work their. How the body becomes part of the machinery in e factory, everything is very repetitive. It's a way of gaming maximum productivity.
Modern times (Chaplin) 1936
He struggles to be apart of the machine. His boss ends up being trapped. Chaplin is making a moment of the aspect of modernity. Maybe quite comic but he delivers his message.
Stock market crash of 1929
Factories close and go unemployment goes up dramatically
Flaneur
The term flanger comes from the French masculine non flaneur
Sitting back and observing the social interaction.
Walter Benjamin.
Thinking about as a child. Strolling through arcades with his mother. (Childhood memories)
Photographer as flaneur
The photographer is armed version of the social walker, stalking, cruising the urban inferno. The voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape. Sitting back and capturing moments.
Flaneus
- The invisible flaneuse. Women and the literature of modernity.
- Janet woff
- Theory, culture and society November 1985
Arbus/hopper
Woman at the counter smoking (1962)
Automat (1927)
Venice
Architecture of the city invites a certain relationship. Your in a kind of Mae. Gt lost but in a inner space which is defined and fixed.
Don't look now (1973)
Plays with the timeline. We are not quite sure what we are seeing.which had we are seeing through.
The detective (1980)
Almost a filmic story acted out. Film look. Black and white.
Cities and geornolism
They refer to the work as a democracy. Attempt to democratise the photo process.
Weegee (Arthur felig)
The arrived on the scene first to any crime. He was to here about the crimes through radio the quickest so he got the best shots.
The naked city 1945-1948
La noire 2011
Challenges the player to control the la police department. Players investigate crime scenes and suspects.
Metropolis 1929
Ridley Scott's Blade runner 1982/2019, LA
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