Simmel is a german sociologist
Simmel reverses what he's asked to do, he decided to write about the effect of the city. Investigation towards physiology and how the environment will effect the city.
Concern that the city might effect the people
Vulnerability
Beginning of the 20th century
Rise of the city and sky scrappers
Pioneered by louis Sullivan
coined the phrase: form follows function
sums up what modernism was about
Decrotive reflecting the art deco
Devided into four zones on a practical level
organised design to the building reflecting the form follows function
fire made way for the new buildings
Sky scrapers came to represent the american dream and power and strength of the commercial and industrial
Known for his celebration of industry in Detroit
Investigation influenced by political
Looking at the production line
Illustration between the body, the city and the machine
Cycle of mass production and consumption becomes the term Fordism
Comment on the irony of working for the employer to be able to buy the goods back off them
critique of the idea of the production line
the film ends with hem deciding to be a waiter instead, triumph of art over industry
Factories closing and employment going up leads to the great depression
questioning of the american dream
not taking part in it
removal allows them to reflect on city life
He attempts to categorise different aspects of city life
didn't finish the book
the architecture is design to be un-interuped
attempt to incorporate this into urban planning
harmony between the human and the city
appears to be an observed moment but is a constructive moment
repeat of motif of grainy black and white experience of the city
Him investigating the americanisation in Tokyo
influenced in William Klines work
she's saying there should be an investigation of the female study on the street
The woman is surrounded by the huge expanse of black in the window
the blackness of the paint is heavier around her shoulders
action of women smoking starring into space gives the impression of something to reflect on
documents at a distance
a place where you can get lost but always get back to where you were
Venice id used for a metaphor for the mind
trapped in a state of real and imagination
physiological investigation
in this one she pays someone to follow her and records him following her
complicated doubling
tries to appear as though she is leading him round like a love story
the success of her images recall an unidentified location of the city
film noir and photography reporting on emergency in the city
name relates to a wee gee board
he has a radio to get the crime scenes before anyone else
the images influenced the film noir genre
portrays police investigation
made into a tv series
continued into console game development
city of the future
post-modern borrowing of film noir aesthetics
photography in the city
idea of face in the crowd
investigates the idea of the individual and the individual in the crowd
the individuals are not aware of being filmed
invasion of private space in the public sphere
moments of people lost in though
detachment created by the lighting
idea of the loneliness of the city and the crowd
idea of spying on people
the images are of people that unaware of being photographed
appear alone and separate despite the environment
post modern experience of the city is found in the photography
colour images
lack of direction of the framing
eyes become overwhelmed by the activity of the city
level of detail without unity to negotiate around the image
detachment from what you would expect people to react to
the end of the possibility of the flaneur
recorded endlessly
recording by ordinary people of unbelievable events
re-edits the film so it runs backwards
purposely over pixelated
uses existing imagery on google
photography is no longer able to document the event
reference to the degrading to the image itself
after the attack everything is recorded in the city
reference to democracy of photography
content of the image becomes more import that the aesthetic
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