Comments on: Here’s Looking at You, CCTV http://2point8.whileseated.org/2009/12/16/cctv_and_london_street_photography/ A wide-open view of the practice of street photography by Michael David Murphy, While Seated. Wed, 19 Jun 2013 20:56:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: Jason http://2point8.whileseated.org/2009/12/16/cctv_and_london_street_photography/comment-page-1/#comment-119025 Jason Tue, 29 Dec 2009 06:12:07 +0000 http://2point8.whileseated.org/?p=689#comment-119025 re: "there’s got to be a lot of creative potential in making art about CCTV itself, I imagine" http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1938076/The-Get-Out-Clause-Manchesters-stars-of-CCTV-cameras.html the video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2iuZMEEs_A re: “there’s got to be a lot of creative potential in making art about CCTV itself, I imagine”

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/1938076/The-Get-Out-Clause-Manchesters-stars-of-CCTV-cameras.html

the video

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W2iuZMEEs_A

]]> By: Hannah http://2point8.whileseated.org/2009/12/16/cctv_and_london_street_photography/comment-page-1/#comment-118762 Hannah Sun, 20 Dec 2009 05:02:14 +0000 http://2point8.whileseated.org/?p=689#comment-118762 Interesting post Michael. Iranian New Wave film is a good example of how these kinds of top-down threats to creativity (in their case censorship) can not be game-enders but double-dog dares. So you get subtle, you tell your story differently, you tell the story in such a way that goes right over the heads of the bulwarks. Literalness of pictures of CCTV cameras might not be that, but rather pulling out acumen and poetry to show a city/country where media awareness and paranoia combine efforts in ways that trump the finger pointing/hearsay of the cold war. Interesting post Michael.

Iranian New Wave film is a good example of how these kinds of top-down threats to creativity (in their case censorship) can not be game-enders but double-dog dares. So you get subtle, you tell your story differently, you tell the story in such a way that goes right over the heads of the bulwarks. Literalness of pictures of CCTV cameras might not be that, but rather pulling out acumen and poetry to show a city/country where media awareness and paranoia combine efforts in ways that trump the finger pointing/hearsay of the cold war.

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