To document is to show authenticity Individual vs collective listening Reconstruct the visual world Technology for broadcasting and methods of receiving Infrastructure of transmission Television = splitting of place Fragmentation, multiplication of place Multiplication of viewpoints Photograph of an architectural model = a ‘photo-model’ Extreme angles in the modern metropolis Spatiality of images Perspectival drawing Greater truth of the oblique view Polarity of perspectives Non-adherence to perspectival grid Perspectival images don’t lead to a coherent whole Tension and frustration Radio logic of spatial coordinates How visible is the apparatus? Non-unified image is part of a created artefact Photomontage as an expression of scepticism Use of ‘reality’ of photography to represent ‘unreality’ Represent the urban reality of the contemporary moment Dissent is not relevant The history of survival The manipulation of historical artefacts The power of the document |
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