MPC 201 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Dziga Vertov, Susan Sontag, Chris Marker
12 Jan 2017
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I claim, for the image, the humility and the powers of the madeleine . A towering and seminal figure in the field of contemporary visual culture . 1950"s left bank group of french new wave, Location shooting, improvisation, elliptical editing, jump cuts, disrupt temporal and spatial continuity of tradition narrative. Susan sontag considers chris marker the greatest cinematographer since vertov. Essayist, critic, novelist, short-story writer, critical theorist. Modern culture,a rt, photography, aids, 1933-2004 nyc. Photographs appropriate things that are photographs , the act of taking a pic is an aggressive act and everyone becomes a tourist in other people"s reality . We are affected by photos of atrocities (her claim 2003), the cover is a photo by. Francesco de goya (when napoleon invaded spain disasters of war drawings . Sontag argues you become indifferent to gruesome photos. Response/impact of visually atrocious acts between mediums (a drawing or. a sculpture, a photo, etc. )
