- consideration of the city as both a public space and a place experiences privately by individual
- about the effects of the city and the built environment on the body
- how the body functions within the space of the city
- experience of negotiating the city and the effect that has on people
- collage with a fragmented body surrounded by buildings
- picturing a vulnerable body with the relationship and imbalance between the body and the city
- depicting the risk to bodies in the construction of the city
- considering the possibility of the resistance to the city - of the individuals being swallowed up by the city and its construction
- creator of the modern skyscraper
- organises buildings as a reflection of the organisation of the body
- considering how a person would move through the building
- images are typical of modernist movement - representing the factory in an abstract way
- gaining maximum productivity
- cycle of production and consumption
- affordable goods being produced for the consumer
- showing the idea of the body being swallowed up by the machinery in a comedic way
Man with a Movie Camera Film (1929)
- comments on Russian society in Stalin era and explores the idea of the ideal society
Flaneur
- not just experiencing the city as a worker who is "part of the machinery" but instead being removed from the crowd and observing and commenting on the experience of the city
- art should reflect this
- considers how the city might be arranged to get the best experience from it
- looking at arcades
- the photographer who is separate from the crowd
- someone who could be said to "steal" images from the crowd of the city
- exploring moments in the crowd, both individual and architectural
- the figure of the flaneur is male as women didn't have the same freedom as men in the modernist period
- sense of dread and foreboding - a woman alone in the city
- sense of an "in between moment"- a moment gone before and a moment about to come - stalling
- up to the viewer to figure out the story
- reflecting the behaviour of the man in the images
- almost like a stalking relationship
- in the example of Sophie Calle's work it gives her a finite area in which she can stalk people to produce photographs
- era implied by clothing - referencing the past
- no reference in the image of the location
- unidentifiable locations
- point to the images is that we project our experiences into an image
- uses types of buildings that look like they could be anywhere
- collection of the work as a "democracy"
- attempt to democratise the process of image making
- art imitating life or life imitating art?
- uncomfortable experience
- typical film noire plots
- example of the representation of the public and the private
- illuminates random subjects using a trip wire attached to the flash on his camera
- use of the camera as a surveillance tool is a comment on this experience of the city
- you're alone in a crowd full of lots of people but at the same time you don't associate with others in the crowd
- sense of bewilderment that creates a drama - makes the photographs look like film stills
- almost representations of an interior life
- judge dismissed the complaint as the photographs are being used as art rather than advertising
- exposure of interior city life - people who are unaware they are being photographed
- haunting quality of images
- people who are both alone and together at the same time
- bombarding the viewer sensorially with information everywhere
- using depth of field to prevent the viewer from picking one figure out of the image - all on the same level and all equally as important in the image
- replicating the experience of being in the city and being assaulted by information
- familiarity vs unfamiliarity
- there is no need for someone strolling through the city to capture imagery if everyone has access to cameras to take their own documentary photographs
