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Photography, composition, and the ephemeral city
Area ( IF 1.6 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-15 , DOI: 10.1111/area.12725
Emma Arnold 1
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Photography is ultimately concerned with the ephemeral – with capturing and preserving transient moments. As a place in constant flux, full of ephemera and the ephemeral, the city has long been an important site for photographers. Those who study the city are increasingly incorporating photography into their research thanks to changing and more accessible technologies and epistemological shifts across the social sciences. Photographs are taking on new roles and are not only adjuncts or images that serve to illustrate or support text; they are integral to varied methodologies that centre the creation of images, from participatory methods using photo-voice to visual urban ethnographies. This paper considers how a move from illustrative and documentary style to more creative and evocative photography is changing the ways geographers compose images. Geographers are not just taking images but making them, involving themselves in a form of hybrid geographic and artistic practice. This shift involves a move from more objective to subjective framings and, in some cases, from more passive to active techniques. Taking graffiti photography as a departure, this paper explores how a hybrid geographic and artistic approach influences the composition and aesthetic qualities of images. The paper takes the reader through five compositions emerging from a study on the politics of graffiti in Norway: 1. Documentation; 2. Obstruction; 3. Abstraction; 4. Reflection; and 5. Negation. These compositions are useful in understanding the place of graffiti, one of the most contested and quintessentially ephemeral features of the urban landscape. This analysis demonstrates how a divergence from more typical representations is important in conducting critical urban photographic research, how an artistic eye is about the analytic as well as the aesthetic.

中文翻译:

摄影、构图和短暂的城市

摄影最终关注的是短暂的——捕捉和保存短暂的瞬间。作为一个不断变化的地方,充满了昙花一现和昙花一现的地方,这座城市长期以来一直是摄影师的重要场所。由于不断变化且更容易获得的技术以及整个社会科学的认识论转变,研究这座城市的人越来越多地将摄影纳入他们的研究。照片正在承担新的角色,它不仅是用于说明或支持文本的辅助工具或图像;它们是各种以图像创作为中心的方法论不可或缺的一部分,从使用照片声音的参与式方法到视觉城市人种学。本文探讨了从说明性和纪实风格到更具创意和令人回味的摄影的转变如何改变地理学家构图的方式。拍摄图像但制作它们,使自己参与一种混合的地理和艺术实践形式。这种转变涉及从更客观的框架到主观框架的转变,在某些情况下,从更被动的技术到主动的技术。本文以涂鸦摄影为出发点,探讨了混合的地理和艺术方法如何影响图像的构图和美学品质。本文将带领读者了解挪威涂鸦政治研究中出现的五篇文章:1. 文件;2. 阻碍;3.抽象;4、反射; 5. 否定。这些作品有助于理解涂鸦的位置,涂鸦是城市景观中最具争议和典型的短暂特征之一。这一分析表明,在进行批判性城市摄影研究时,与更典型的表现形式的差异是多么重要,艺术眼光是如何看待分析和审美的。
更新日期:2021-05-15
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