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Panoramas

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Panoramas serve readers of Ghost Metropolis to "see with new eyes," after Proust.  We already experience a cityscape in broad sweeping views from infinite single-point perspectives.  But we focus, "zooming" neurologically fixing our attention on specific features of the cityscape that we navigate (the autos in front of us most of all, our objectives, the signage, a pedestrian, our purse, etc).  The still-photographic panorama belongs to a very old family of depictions--dioramas and cycloramas.  It freezes the moving landscape into a moment of time, where the human individual can look around 360 degrees, without any fear of losing one's attention on the moving reality of an embodied cityscape.  Photographic panoramas are also portals into The Past.  The past is the unrecoverable but certainly real set of actions that took and made places.  Photography, as a technology of transcendent power to bridge time, allows us to see directly that past (however mute and incomplete the image always is).
 
 

Contents of this path:

  1. Bunker Hill From Figueroa St (Looking Southeast)
  2. Pico and 12th St, 360-degree Panorama by Phil Ethington 2004
  3. Pico and 30th St, 360-degree Panorama by Phil Ethington 2004
  4. Pico and Appian Way, 360-degree Panorama by Phil Ethington 2004
  5. Pico and Beverly Glen, 360-degree Panorama by Phil Ethington 2004
  6. Pico and Bundy Ave, 360-degree Panorama by Phil Ethington 2004
  7. Pico and Exposition Blvd, 360-degree Panorama by Phil Ethington 2004
  8. SeaLaunch: Exporting to Space from the Los Angeles Harbor
  9. Signal Hill, 360-degree Panoarama, 1927

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