Open AccessPhotographic narratives of urban transformations
Author(s) -
Carlos Machado e Moura
Publication year - 2022
Publication title -
sophia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2183-8976
pISSN - 2183-9468
DOI - 10.24840/2183-8976_2021-0006_0001_3
Subject(s) - photography , focus (optics) , narrative , scale (ratio) , space (punctuation) , spacetime , aesthetics , sociology , visual arts , history , geography , art , cartography , linguistics , literature , philosophy , physics , optics , quantum mechanics
Time, space, scale and movement are essential aspects of visual data production. Significant changes in cities’ flows can transpire in just a few minutes, hours or days, span several years or even decades. A diachronic study of an urban environment could therefore concentrate on the repetitive patterns of many activities and phenomena that occur during a day or focus on transformations over much more extended periods of time. There are several photographic methods that specifically focus on documenting this specific change — it is the case of “interval photography”, “time-lapse photography” and other forms of “repeat photography”.1 All these, and others, explicitly aim at sequentially researching social change, and physical and cultural expressions as they develop, over time in a particular physical or cultural space.(...)