From God's-eye to Camera-eye: Aerial Photography's Post-humanist and Neo-humanist Visions of the World
2012; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 36; Issue: 1 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/03087298.2012.632567
ISSN2150-7295
Autores Tópico(s)Archaeological Research and Protection
ResumoAbstract Aerial photographs are most commonly associated with notions of panoptic vision or the environmental sublime. This paper reviews the dystopian and utopian discourses surrounding aerial photography and suggests a third approach to understanding aerial vision as dialectically situated between the poles of science and art, rationality and imagination, abstracted and embodied knowledge, visibility and invisibility, the archive and the museum. Keywords: aerial photographyaerial visionphotography and World War OneWalter Benjamin (1892–1940)Jean Brunhes (1869–1930)Le Corbusier (1887–1965)Siegfried Kracauer (1889–1966)Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900–1944) Acknowledgments I would like to thank Gordon Beck, Graham Smith, Nick Yablon, and Terry Finnegan for research advice and Lorraine Daston, Kelley Wilder, and Gregg Mitman for their helpful suggestions and for inviting me to present an early version of this essay at the Documenting the World workshop at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin, in January 2010.
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