Dresden exhibition 1903
-Simmel 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
-(Herbert bayer lonely metropolitan 1932)
Urban sociology
-the resistance of the individual to being a levelled swallowed up in the social technological mechanism
-Georg simmel the metropolis and mental life 1903
-before health and safely-people had to learn how to live in built up world
Architect louis sullivan (1856-1924)
-details from guaranty building- 3 levels one below ground, one public, 2 more. -Very pretty embellishments at the top of the building.
-Skyscrapers represented upwardly mobile city of business opportunity
fire cleared buildings in Chicago in 1871
Manhatta 1921-paul strand
Charles scheeler- advertising photographer for for motor companies plant ad the river rouge Detroit (1927)
Fordism:mechanised labour relations
-coined by antonio gramsci in his essay americanism and fordism
-the eponymous manufacturing system designed to spew out standardised low cost goods and affords
Modern times (1936)charlie chaplin
stock market crash 1929
-factories close and unemployment goes up dramatically
-leads to the great depression
-Margaret Bourke-White
The man with a movie camera
Flaneur-saunterer or stoller or lounger.
charles boudalaire
the nineteenth century french poet charles proposes a version of the flaneur that of a person who walks in the city...
Walter benjamin
adopts the concept of the urban observer as an analytical tool and as a lifestyle as seen in his writings.
Photgrapher as flaneur
the photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitring stalking cruising th urban inferno the voyeristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. adept of the joys of watching connoisseur of empathy
Daido Moriyama (1970) Shinjuki district of Tokyo
Flaneuse
the invisible flanuese. women and the literature of modernity.
describing fleeting anonymous ephermal encounters of life in the metropolis mainly accounts for the experiences of men. it ignores the concomitant separation of public and private spheres from the mid nineteenth century....
susan buck moores
this text suggests that the only figure a woman on the street can be is either a prostitute or a bag lady.
sophie calle suite venitienne 1980
the detective 1980
-wants to provide photographic evidence of her existence
-his photos are notes on her are displayed next to her photos and notes about
him
Weegee-the naked city
9/11 citizen journalism:the end of the flaneur?
liz wells says that phrase is first seen in an article by stuart allen online news journalism nd the internet in 2006. she discusses the 7/7....
surveillance city
since the attack on the towed in 2001...
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