Exercis 1:9 Visual Research and analysis - social contrasts.
In a search for photographs and photographers that illustrate the social inequalities of city life, I discovered the Urban Photographers web site.
(Click on the blue high lit wording below.) This is a group of people who specialise in the various aspects of city photography.
Beatriz Veliz Argueta is a member of The Urban Photographers Association. I found that she shows quite poignantly the economic differences of parts of the population of a city, in this case in Tbilisi in Georgia.
"Notes from a postsoviet space: On Georgia and the landscape of aftermath is a project that questions the changing architectural landscape of Tbilisi, Georgia as part of the new political discourse that is in the process of reshaping the city’s landscape. The urban landscape has thus turned into a space of encounters: of new and old buildings; of the legacies of soviet times and the challenges of new democratic times."
beatriz-veliz-argueta-georgia-03.jpg
This picture shows an innovative building structure in the building stage - clearly a statement of the developing city.
beatriz-veliz-argueta-georgia-01.jpg
In the image the older city is portrayed with much dilapidation in the distance and the workaday normality as a man goes about his business.
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Shown in this picture is the reality of a basic life style for some against the backdrop of the modern development of the city.
From Invisible Cities, Paul Seawright
ic2.jpg This shows an emotional picture of a mother waiting. One can read many things into this image.
The recording of social contrasts is not a new idea as shown by Jacob Riis work, 'How the other Half Lives' recording life in New York around the end of the 19th century.
John Thomson's work Street Life in London seems to show more scenes of working class life rather than Jacob Riis' work in New York which shows scenes of poverty and deprivation.
(Click on the blue high lit wording below.) This is a group of people who specialise in the various aspects of city photography.
Beatriz Veliz Argueta is a member of The Urban Photographers Association. I found that she shows quite poignantly the economic differences of parts of the population of a city, in this case in Tbilisi in Georgia.
"Notes from a postsoviet space: On Georgia and the landscape of aftermath is a project that questions the changing architectural landscape of Tbilisi, Georgia as part of the new political discourse that is in the process of reshaping the city’s landscape. The urban landscape has thus turned into a space of encounters: of new and old buildings; of the legacies of soviet times and the challenges of new democratic times."
beatriz-veliz-argueta-georgia-03.jpg
This picture shows an innovative building structure in the building stage - clearly a statement of the developing city.
beatriz-veliz-argueta-georgia-01.jpg
In the image the older city is portrayed with much dilapidation in the distance and the workaday normality as a man goes about his business.
beatriz-veliz-argueta-georgia-09.jpg
Shown in this picture is the reality of a basic life style for some against the backdrop of the modern development of the city.
From Invisible Cities, Paul Seawright
ic2.jpg This shows an emotional picture of a mother waiting. One can read many things into this image.
The recording of social contrasts is not a new idea as shown by Jacob Riis work, 'How the other Half Lives' recording life in New York around the end of the 19th century.
John Thomson's work Street Life in London seems to show more scenes of working class life rather than Jacob Riis' work in New York which shows scenes of poverty and deprivation.