urban sociology
public and private space
postmodernism
individual to crowd in city
Georg Simmel 1858 - 1918
German sociologist
Dresden exhibition 1903
Effects of city on the individual
Individual who is surrounded but also alone at the same time
Urban sociology
resistance of the individual to being levelled swallowed up in the social tech mechanism.
Lewis Hine 1932
Architect Louis Sullivan 1856 - 1924
Modern skyscraper
influential
mentor to Frank Llloyd Wright
Guaranty Building was built in 1894.
Details on building arts and crafts movement
natural influence of nature
Inside of building - zones. divided.
Basement
Zone 1 - public
Zone 2 - office
Zone 3 - Utilities
Organised and ordered environment
Different colour blocks represented the different zones.
Carson Pirie Scott store in Chicago
buildings represent the upwardly mobile city of business opportunity
Manhatta 1921 Paul Strand and Charles Scheeler
relationship between film and photography
simplicity
abstract composition
Figure is small cog in larger machine
Ford motor companys plant at river rouge detroit 1927 (Charles Scheeler)
1.3 mil add campaign for Ford
Fordism : Mechanised labour relations
Coined by Antonio Gramsci "Americanism and Fordism"
Worker is employed in menial job then could buy the product that they are producing.
Labourer is also the consumer at the same time.
Modern Times 1936 Charlie Chaplin
factory worker - subjected to labour. suffers mental breakdrown. leaves factory chaos. right..
Stock market crash of 1929
factories close and unemployment rises
Leads to great depression
Margaret Bourke - White photo.
Immigrant community affected the most
Man with a movie Camera 1929. Silent doc. role of camera in the city.
cinematic techniques.
Future city.
Flaneur.
french masculine noun flaneur.
Stroller, lounger, saunterer, loafer.
to stroll.
Flaneur. - character
Charles Baudelaire.
Walk the city to experience it.
Art should capture this
apart from and part of crowd at the same time.
Walter Benjamin.
adopts concept to analytical tool.
Lives that life himself.
Arcades project 1927-40.
Parisian city life in 19th c.
Berlin chronicle / berlin childhood. memoirs.
Photographer as Flaneur.
Susan Sontag.
photographer is an armed version of the colitary walker, stalking cruising the urban inferno.....
Flaneuse.
Invisible flaneuse. women and the literature of modernity. Janet Wolf.
Theory culture & society nov 1985 vol 2 no 3. QUOTE.
Ssuan Buck morss.
The dialects of seeing : walter benjamin and the arcades.
Project cambridge mass
Arbus/Hopper
Woman at counter smoking. 1962 observed moment. sense of threat.
Automat 1927. darkness. depth.
Sophie Calle Suite venitienne 1980.
relation with city. the city is venice. following strangers on the street. photographed them without knowledge. whyyyyyyyyyyyyy?! what a freak.
Venice.
architecture. labyrinth. easy to get lost. but its small and contained. always end up where you began.
Dont look now 1973 - nicholas roeg. film.
couple travel to venice. recover from death of a child. the woman is haunted by figure in red cape. issues of memory and trauma. identity.
The detective 1980. sophie c.
gets mum to hire detective to follow her. his observation of her. her record of him observing him....
Controlled by her.
Cindy Sherman untitled film stills 1977 - 80
stereotypical figure of woman in city.
woman is lost / trapped by city.
Weegee (Arthur Felig)
dark side of the city.
press photographer. developed work by following emergency services.
The naked city 1945. 1948.
La Noire. 2011.
set in 1947.
Cities of the future / past. Fritz Lang metropolis
Bladerunner. 1982
Lorca di Corcia Heads. 2001 NY.
Public / Private
what happens on the street is considered as art.
Walker Evans Many are called 1938
Made with the use of a hidden camera. unobserved moments.
Postmodern city
Joel Meyerowitz 1976
eye level view.
9/11 citizen journalism : the end of the flaneur.
adam bezer 2001.
the body in the city destroyed in a mental capacity.
destruction of american dream.
Stuart Allen - use of mobile phones to record events.
Surveillance city.
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