Friday, March 5, 2010

Though the Looking Glass of Digital Photography: Shanghai Model City


Shanghai Model City, originally uploaded by Ivan Walsh.

It takes blowing up the initial image to see the words 'Virtual Worlds' in the background to what spreads itself in the fore- and middle ground: a city as a forest of buildings sprouting from the plane of immanence of their actual and/or future construction that unfolds before the eyes of their spectators as an always already presence of what time holds in its store as such, as a surface for modeling past and coming stage of how a city looks at different points of its time-line that unexpectedly becomes a three-dimensional spectacle of urban space scaled down for the scopic pleasure and its material anticipation.

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