Ebbets Field and Other Monuments: Outer Borough Neighborhoods and Revanchism in 1990s Cinema

Stein, Erica

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“…1 The analysis also allows perspectives from urban studies to be introduced and suggests alternative views on 'urban mobilities' (Jensen et al 2020). In fact, the scene situates rephotography in specific spacetimes of the post-industrial city; this entails a fetishistic celebration -as in many other New York movies -of the neighbourhood as a monument and 'authentic' site of collective performance (Stein 2019), as well as a romantic vision of the community as being made up of face-to-face encounters that generate eccentric stories (Peacock 2014).…”

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Repetition, movement and the visual ontographies of urban rephotography: learning from Smoke (1995)

Rossetto

Vanolo

2021

Mobilities

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Engaging with a scene of the iconic movie Smoke (by Wayne Wang, 1995) in which a rephotographic project is sensitively elicited, this paper addresses the technique of repeat photography to contribute to methodological debates that have arisen within the nascent 'Mobility and Humanities' subfield. Through a humanistic perspective, the paper reviews and expands the nexus between mobility, photography and the urban by comparing the technique with three methodological issues: the blurring of supposed binaries, such as traditional/innovative, static/moving and fast/slow; the possibility of grasping the mobilities of the world in a post-human vein; and the opportunity to also consider techniques as sites for reflection. To address these issues, the paper draws from philosophies of movement, post-phenomenological and object-oriented stances and visual and urban cultural geographies. With reference to the urban realm, this paper proposes three perspectives on rephotography, namely (1) rephotography as a practice of slow and rhythmic attunement with circumstantial spacetimes moving backwards and forwards; (2) rephotography as a visual ontography that displaces the human and opens up space for the apprehension of the agency and mobility of things; and (3) rephotography as a continual process of activation of moving gazes on cities and their imaginaries.

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