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Dan Cities Blog: February 2011
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Sunday, February 27, 2011. Art and Spatial Politics. Still from Wojnarowicz's A Fire In My Belly. When Wojnarowicz's video A Fire In My Belly. Images of Gordon Matta-Clark's Day's End. Gordon Matta-Clark's Days End. Saturday, February 19, 2011. Master Builders and Resistance. In The Uses of Neighborhood Parks, chapter 5 of The Death and Life of Great American Cities. Jacobs is claiming that the park is not what is going to develop a strong, diverse neighborhood, but it is the strong, diverse neighborhood...
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Dan Green: Cities in Crisis: 1930s-1950s
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Thursday, February 17, 2011. Lewis Mumford is a historian and philosopher born in 1895 in Queens, NY. When he was 44 years old he created a film called "The City". A narrator's voice is heard, explaining the beauty of this "new" type of life. I would like to highlight some of things he says and offer my comments on them. Just watch us grow, the scales wont hold us soon.". I found this to be ironic due to increasing obesity in America. A little gossip, or a friendly hand is good for the complexion". This ...
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Dan Green: Cities in Crisis: Master Builders
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Monday, February 21, 2011. Part 2 - Chapter 8: The Need for Mixed Primary Uses. S "Long Exposure" series. The Lower Manhattan Waterfront. Jacobs theorizes that if a district is calculated and specialized for one function will be unable to provide what is necessary if it is confined to that one function. This is due to the fact that the district will only be used during specific times and because of its lack of diversity, at all other times will be empty. Jacobs talks about the Central Business District (...
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Dan Green: Cities in Crisis: The Navigators
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Saturday, February 5, 2011. While thinking about the flaneur I realized that what is most interesting about the flaneur is not the city they exhibit, but the flaneur themselves. It seems that Poe too found the flaneur themselves to be interesting. Who are the flaneurs what does their life consist of. I find myself asking this question about a lot of people i see on the street. wondering, "what do they do at night? Or "what does their apartment look like? Perhaps it is our natural inclination to be voyeur...
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Contemporary Thought In Photography: Relational Art
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Contemporary Thought In Photography. Monday, November 29, 2010. This week, the discussion is based off of a video by Ben Lewis for BBC entitled " Relational Art: Is It An Ism? Lewis travels to different artists that are listed in Nicolas Bourriaud's book Relational Aesthetics. As "relational artists". He poses this quote from Bourriaud's book to a few of them:. Well, Ben Lewis hopes so. Throughout the video, he puts together a list of 8 rules that deal with "-isms". A new ism must develop from an old ism.
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Contemporary Thought In Photography: Narrativity
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Contemporary Thought In Photography. Monday, November 22, 2010. The question as to whether or not photographs can work as narratives is explored in John Szarkowski's "The Photographer's Eye", Clement Greenberg's "Four Photographers", and Charlotte Cotton's "The Photograph as Contemporary Art: Chapter 2, Once Upon A Time". Each image was photographic and that is all they had in common. She is admitting that this photograph is simply a moment. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). Check out my website:.
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Contemporary Thought In Photography: George Baker on The Expanded Field of Photography
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Contemporary Thought In Photography. Monday, November 8, 2010. George Baker on The Expanded Field of Photography. In "Photography's Expanded Field", George Baker argues that over time (mainly since the 1970's and the postmodern era), photography has changed into, well, something. He also creates one where the question marks are replaced with 3 chosen artists that would fill their specific locations within this map, and another that looks like this:. As Baker continues, he stresses that we must not revert...
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Contemporary Thought In Photography: SFMOMA's Symposium: "Is Photography Over?"
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Contemporary Thought In Photography. Monday, December 6, 2010. SFMOMA's Symposium: "Is Photography Over? As I read through the 13 responses (Vince Aletti, George Baker, Walead Beshty, Jennifer Blessing, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Geoff Dyer, Peter Galassi, Trevor Pglen, Blake Stimson, Charlotte Cotton, Corey Keller, Douglas Nickel, and Joel Snyder) for this symposium, I noticed a few things overall. The need to define exactly what "photography" is and exactly what "over" means was a prominent concern. What I...
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Contemporary Thought In Photography: September 2010
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Contemporary Thought In Photography. Monday, September 27, 2010. Ch 3: Jeff Wall, Wittgenstein, and The Everyday. The main focus of this section of Fried's Why Photoraphy Matters As Art As Never Before. Focuses mainly on some of Jeff Wall's photographs, what Jeff Wall has to say about these photographs, and how these "everyday" images mirror the concepts of Wittgenstein's thought experiment and that of the absorptivity. And Picture For Women. Photo 2) ,. Photo 5 Woman with a Covered Tray. The cinematic e...
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Dan Cities Blog: April 2011
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Friday, April 22, 2011. We all know the famous Cloud Gate. Untitled, 2010. stainless steel and resin. 1999 fiberglass and pigment. As if to Celebrate I Discovered a Mountain Blooming With Red Flowers,. 1981 wood, cement, polystyrene, pigment. Although none of this really has much to do with the city in a direct way, he takes this way of working and brings it outside into the public space. Tall Tree and The Eye,. 2009 stainless steel over carbon. Am particularly interested in the back side of Sky Mirror.
