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The Projectionists
Eadweard Muybridge is among the seminal originators of the contemporary world's visual form, with its concentrated image-sequences of bodies in movement and its ocular obsessions. This book examines an almost unknown dimension of Muybridge's work, as a moving-image projectionist, who toured Europe's cities to enthral beyond-capacity audiences with unprecedented projections and who built a moving-image auditorium - long before cinemas were created - in which to project his work at the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition. That final invention of Muybridge's was both an all-engulfing catastrophe and the vital precursor for the following century's worldwide manias for projection. Based on ...
Projected Cities
The books that comprise the Locations series address the links between film and society. In Cinema and Urban Space Stephen Barber explores the use of urban images in film from early to contemporary cinema.
Abandoned Images
Broadway Avenue in downtown Los Angeles contains an extraordinary collection of twelve abandoned film palaces, all built between 1910 and 1931. In most cities worldwide such a concentration of original cinema houses would have been demolished long ago—but in a city whose identity is inseparable from the film industry, the buildings have survived mainly intact, some of their interiors dilapidated and gutted and others transformed and re-imagined as churches and nightclubs. Stephen Barber’s Abandoned Images takes us inside these remarkable structures in order to understand the birth and death of film as both a medium and a social event. Due to the rise of digital filmmaking and straight-to...
Berlin Bodies
Cover -- Berlin Bodies: Anatomizing the Streets of The City -- Imprint Page -- Contents -- 1. Berlin Bodies -- 2. Fragments Torn From A History of the Human Body in Berlin -- 3. Berlin's Passengers: Transits, Entries, Exits -- 4. The Eye of Berlin -- 5. Sonic Berlin: Urban Excoriations -- 6. Apocalyptic Berlin -- 7. Berlin's Ruins -- References -- Readings and Viewings -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations
Tokyo Vertigo
Journey with innovative travel writer Stephen Barber as he guides the reader through the ultimate futuristic city: Tokyo. A cinematic portrayal of the city, from close-up portraits of individual citizens to panoramic descriptions of its vast avenues and immense digital-image screens. From day to night and past to present, "Tokyo Vertigo" is visceral, exhilarating travel writing. Photos.
White Noise Ballrooms
"The devil is at our heels . . . . at the heart of the city's aberrations." Picture a lost city in northern England during the momentous winter of 1978--the final winter before the onset of the Thatcher era, at the peak of the punk rock movement. A notorious serial killer--the Yorkshire Ripper--terrorizes the city's women, unhindered by an aimless police force. Violent outbursts of gang warfare transect the city's streets while an immense insane asylum overlooks the chaos from the outskirts. This innovative and disturbing novel follows a group of teens as they engulf themselves in punk-rock cacophonies and the accompanying riots that erupt in the city's decrepit hotel ballrooms and subterranean nightclubs. Written in a captivating, immersive first-person voice that meshes raw corporeality and urban insurgency, White Noise Ballrooms deploys recent history to piercingly illuminate the contemporary moment.
The Vanishing Map
The Vanishing Map takes the reader on a real and imagined journey across some of the world's major cities to explore what of their past history will survive in our memory.
Growth
*The finest contemporary photography that grapples with our planet's future *The winner will be chosen from the shortlist in March 2011 The Prix Pictet, launched by the Swiss Private Bank Pictet & Cie, showcases photography that deals with the key issue of global sustainability. Now in its third cycle, the current Prix Pictet highlights the theme of growth. Although an engine for economic development, growth (in excess) can compromise human existence and endanger the planet. This controversial topic is explored in depth by the many artists who were nominated for the Prize and by the twelve talented artists who the expert independent jury shortlisted for the award. The results of unbridled growth and ceaseless development are portrayed to thought-provoking and aesthetic effect. The twelve shorlist photographers are: Christian Als, Edward Burtynsky, Stéphane Couturier, Mitch Epstein, Chris Jordan, Yeondo Jung, Vera Lutter, Nyaba Leon Ouedraogo, Taiyn Struch, Thomas Struth, Guy Tillim, and Michael Wolf. ILLUSTRATIONS: 72 colour & 11 b/w photographs
Radio Works: 1946-48
Following his release from the Rodez asylum, Antonin Artaud decided he wanted his new work to connect with a vast public audience, and he chose to record radio broadcasts in order to carry through that aim. That determination led him to his most experimental and incendiary project, To Have Done with the Judgement of God, 1947-48, in which he attempted to create a new language of texts, screams, and cacophonies: a language designed to be heard by millions, aimed, as Artaud said, for "road-menders." In the broadcast, he interrogated corporeality and introduced the idea of the "body without organs," crucial to the later work of Deleuze and Guattari. The broadcast, commissioned by the French nat...
