Herbets Bayer's Lonely Metropolitan image optimises the idea of being surrounded by people but being simultaneously alone.
In lewis Hines famour image the city is engulfing as he hangs above.
The large buildings that you can see in any imagery of the big cities in america show them that they are these great creaetions that are soaring up into the sku, these then give the impression that this is the land of oppertunity and this shows how they are reaching for the sky.
Fordism, is coined by Gramsci, the idea is that the human body is part of the machine. The worker is employed in menial repetitive work and paid just enough to then buy the kinds of items that there making. It is self perpetuating - the worker is also the consumer.
Fordism was brought to an end by the stock market crash which led to the great depression. Immigrant communities and factory laborers are usually the first affected by depression!
'Man with a movie Camera' is a silent documentary from 1929 showing modern soviet life. There would have been live musical accompaniment to this film.
Susan Sontag talks about the photographer as a flaneur.
'Flaneur' comes from the french noun meaning 'stroller' or 'lounger'. The flaneur is a man of leisure,
What does it mean for a female to be a flaneur (flaneuse) ?
Shermans "Untitled Film Stills' use the typical low angles of film noir
