ABSTRACT
Digital and analog photography capture an image that can be reproduced relatively easily. Digital photography, however, is about efficiency and the compression of time. Social death, anonymity, and fatalism are not inevitable: the city and the singular temporality of the present timespace can be defatalized. The photographer is an armed version of the solitary walker reconnoitering, stalking, cruising the urban inferno, the voyeuristic stroller who discovers the city as a landscape of voluptuous extremes. Urban centers cities contain more than half the people on earth. The word contain, however, is used cautiously: cities are more than just ecological places boundaried and containing. The photos capture moments of the city that are often forgotten and re-imagine the anonymous through analog photography. However, technology has advanced and been co-opted by neoliberal ideologies similar to those of the city: efficiency, predictability, and the generic. A tangible memory reintegrates the lost historicity of the digital present; the historicity of the photograph's content is reified.
