Paris and Photography as the Promise of Possibility

"To think of photography without Paris at its origins is to think of the computer without keeping California in mind, or to think of the renaissance without conjuring Florence," quite an appropriate analogy in the context of the "moving film" footage of the 1900 Paris Exposition shown in class on 9/19. The article also discusses the "Hausmannization" of Paris as well as the polyphonic viewpoints that digital image-making can now provide.

The entire article (written by Ulrich Baier, Vice Provost for Globalization and Multicultural Affairs and Professor of German and Comparative Literature at New York University) can be accessed below:

Paris and Photography as the Promise of Possibility

http://mus-mus.org/atparis/atparis_ub.htm