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Modernisation, Step by Step


Modernisation, Step by Step
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Copyright: Jasper Goss (jasper) Silver Note Writer [C: 7 W: 0 N: 43] (86)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2005-12-07
Categories: Architecture
Camera: Panasonic Lumix DMC-FX9
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2005-12-20 18:05
Viewed: 682
Points: 4
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
With little sense of irony, the car park of the Istanbul Museum of Modern Art is as good a place as any in Turkey to reflect on modernisation and the reinvention of social and political space. Modernisation is a concept explored in literature and art since the 19th Century, from the metaphorical (Goethe's Faust) to the explicitly political (Marx & Engles' Communist Manifesto). Broadly speaking, modernisation means the transformation of our societies by people and at the same time the transformation of people by the societies in which they live. It is about the constant destruction and recreation of the world we live in. Buildings, commodities and countries rise and fall, all the result of collective human activity. In Istanbul, the new Modern Art Museum is located in a now rusting industrial zone. The Museum is housed in a brand new edifice resembling a factory; the factory next to the museum could just as easily house a museum. One contains commodities slowly disintegrating, the other full of commodities produced by globally renown artists. Separating the two buildings a freshly asphalted car park and a white wall screening the old from the new. Fresh paint marking the symmetrical spaces for each vehicle stands in contrast to the formerly symmetric but wilting production space of the adjacent factory. The Communist Manifesto speaks of the revolutionising power of capitalism, as both a destructive and creative force, where, "all that is solid melts into air."
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geometrical good shot !

Great geometric patterns and use of scale. The man walking though the frame almost echos in the composition. Might consider cropping the grey sky to bring the viewer eye-to-eye with the stair-stepping loading docks. Well done.

The parking lot lines that draw the eye to the symbolic step pattern of the platforms hint of a poetry and beauty inherent in structure. I am surprised that you let yourself indulge in as much aestheticism as you did in this image. Very uncharacteristic of your photographic vision. :)

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