Modernism marked the migration of bodies towards the city centre to work
Frankfurt School - Benjamin, Kracauer, Adorno
Metropolis and Mental Life - Simmel
Resistance of the individiual to being swallowed up in the social (fedirological??? i cant read my notes..) mechanism.
Architect Louis Sullivan
- critic of chicago school
"form follows function"
Essay - "Office buildings artistically considered."
- Sky scrapers - representitive of upwardly mobile society.
Guaranty Building
Charles Scheeler - Photos of Big industry
Production Line - Fordism, sythesis of body and machine
Film - 'Modern Times' by Chaplin
background - stockmarket crash 1929
great depression
Margerat Bourke-White
Film - "Man with a movie camera" (1929)
Modern film / photography
-detatched observation, sythesis of man and machine, experiment in technology
the flaneur, urban observer
Baudelair (charles) walks the city to experience it, to find art, to capture the city.
Arcades Project - W. Benjamin, - Berlin Chronocle
Flaneuse - female, Janet Wolf
either a prostitute or a bag lady
Dennis Hopper - Automat
Arbus. NYC - woman at smoking counter
Venice "Dont Look Now" Nichola Roeg
The Detectice - wants to provide photo evidence of her own existance
Weegee (arthur felig) (oija, he owned a police radio... haha)
murder and police incidents
"Naked City" Film and photo collection.
Lorca Di Cocia - Heads - 2001
the experience of an individual in a croud.
interesting lighting machines
secret photos - detatchment
Walker Evans - secret photos
Post Modern City - disorientating, dislocating, easy to get lost so easy to submit to authority
lost and confusion - submit to instruction or freedom?
A place of a larger threat, constant fear of terrorism
Surveillane, more togetherness
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