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Subject: Dead Media Working Note 09.2
Dead Medium: A Panorama Bibliography
From: aeksp_AT_hum.aau.dk (Soeren Pold)
Dear Bruce,
I've seen your postings on the list about the panorama
with great interest. Here is a bibliography with some
books about the panorama and the like. It is not a
complete list, but a list of works I have used and found
interesting recently in my writing of an article about the
panorama.
GERMAN:
Of course Walter Benjamin is essential. Some of this (the
Baudelaire book) can be found in English too.
Benjamin, Walter: Das Passagen-Werk, Frankfurt/M 1982
Benjamin, Walter: Charles Baudelaire, Suhrkamp,
Frankfurt/M 1974
Norbert Bolz has written a highly interesting book dealing
with among other things the panoramic perception:
Bolz, Norbert: Am Ende der Gutenberg-Galaxis: Die Neuen
Kommunikationsverhtnisse, Munchen 1993
History of the panorama media with some of the documents
printed:
Buddemeier, Heinz: Panorama, Diorama, Photographie:
Entstehung und Wirkung neuer Medien im 19. Jahrhundert,
Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 1970
Two very essential works on the panorama. The latter a
catalogue to an exhibition in Bonn with beautiful
illustrations. The first is simply *the* book about the
panorama. With history, development, techniques,
signification etc.:
Oettermann, Stephan: Das Panorama, Frankfurt/M, Syndikat,
1980
Plessen, Marie Louise von & Giersch, Ulrich: Sehsucht: das
Panorama als Massenunterhaltung des 19. Jahrhunderts,
Basel, Frankfurt/M, 1993
Very well written with comparison of the panorama with the
railway. Can be found in English I think:
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang: Geschichte der Eisenbahnreise,
Frankfurt/M 1989
(((This would by Wolfgang Schivelbusch's "The Railway
Journey," a fine book on the social impact of railroads =
bruces)))
ENGLISH:
About Benjamin and also the panorama:
Buck-Morrs, Susan: The dialectics of seeing, MIT-Press
1993
Jonathan Crary has written a brilliant book about how the
visual machines (stereoscope, phenakisticope etc) changes
the observer's perception:
Crary, Jonathan: Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and
Modernity in the Nineteenth Century, MIT Press Cambridge
Mass, London England 1990
Also in the Benjamin department, dealing with the origin
of the cinematic look and finding it in the panorama and
elsewhere:
Friedberg, Anne: Window Shopping: Cinema and the
postmodern, University of California Press, 1993
FRENCH:
Dealing with development in visual media and its
importance. Is available in translated editions too:
Paul Virilio: La Machine de Vision, Galilee 1988
DANISH:
Hansen, Gilbert: "Det panoramiske blik" in
"Arkitekturtidsskrift B" nr. 51, Aarhus 1994
My own work on the panorama and Balzac:
Pold, Soeren: Parisisk Panorama, Aarhus 1994
Pold, Soeren: "Panoramisk urbanisering, Paris som medie
hos Balzac og i 1800-tallets realistiske medie-
virkelighed" in "Passage, 22, Aarhus 1996 (in print).
From Denmark but in English:
Zerlang, Martin: "The City Spectacular of the Nineteenth
Century" in Arbejdspapir, 9, Center for Urbanitet og
Estetik, Cph.
REVITALIZING DEAD MEDIA ON THE WWW:
Using QuickTimeVR panoramas to show Potsdamer Platz in
Berlin every day:
City.scope: http://cityscope.icf.de/
Macintosh QuickTimeVR:
http://qtvr.quicktime.apple.com/Home.htm
Best,
Soeren Pold
Dept. of Comparative Literature phone: +45 8942 1835
University of Aarhus fax: +45 8942 1850
Willemoesgade 15
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DK-8200 Aarhus N
Denmark
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