Lecture 2

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George simmel Architect Lewis Sullivan.. Creature of the modern skyscraper. Guaranty building. Manhattan documentary film by Paul strand Modern time charliechaplin 1936 The man with the movie camera (silent 1929) Flaneur - masculine noun meaning stroller Charles Baudelaire Gathering information...observer Walter Benjamin The photographer is an armed version of a solitary walker reconnoitring stalking cruising the urban incefero Daido Murayama, Shinjuku district of Tokyo 1970s The invisible flanduse. Women and the literature of modernity Susan buck-morss. Bag lady/prostitute. Arbus/hopper. Woman at the counter smoking/automat Followed strangers in the street...Sophie calle suite venitienne (1980) Venice architecture might get lost, because of design of the city. Don’t look now film. Examines the psychoanalytic The detective 1980.gets a detective to follow her. His notes n photos are displayed next to her photos and notes about him, set in Paris. Took him to locations with special meanings Cindy Sherman Walker Evans manyare called Postmodern city. Ed soja, Bonaventure hotel...you might not just get lost but you also might get lost in yourself, you become submissive/ zombie like character. Like an idea store being lead in a certain fashion and behave in a certain way.


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