I thought the bit about Mathew Brady’s documentary Civil War
photographs brought up a powerful point. He certainly wasn’t the first person
to attempt to capture the aspects of war, but he was different in that his work
revealed the realistic, raw side that had long been ignored. While other
portrayals expressed glory, heroism, triumph and victory, Brady’s expressed
defeat, death and austerity. Generally, many people (today) would agree that the
latter are common feelings associated with war, so Brady was successful in using
“the camera’s eye to create new mythos;” his work is iconic. It’s interesting
how multimedia ties together in that they all are means of communicating
something; a feeling, an idea, anything—it’s a language.
The video I chose is a compilation of selected moments from
eight months of filming the street life outside of a Manhattan pizza parlor. I
chose it because the artist is able to capture the mood of an urban setting by
filming interactions that bring life to the concrete sidewalks
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