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• Title:Before and after : documenting the architecture of disaster / Eyal and Ines Weizman.
  
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• Author/Creator:Weizman, Eyal, author.
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Weizman, Ines, author.
  
• Published/Created:[Moscow] Strelka Press, [2013]
  ©2013
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: NA2500 .W449 2013
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Architecture--Philosophy.
  
• Edition:First edition.
  
• Description:70 pages : illustrations (some colour) ; 18 cm
  
• Summary:A village in Pakistan before and after a drone attack, a Camodian river valley before and after a flood. The before-and-after image has become the tool of choice for analysing events. Satellite photography allows us to scrutinise the impact of war or climate change, from the safe distance of orbit. But one thing is rarely captured: the event itself. All we can read is its effect on a space, and that's where the architectural expert is required, to fill the gap with a narrative. In this groundbreaking essay, Eyal and Ines Weizman explore the history of the before-and-after image, from its origins in the 19th-century Paris to today's satellite surveillance. State militaries monitor us and humanitarian organizations monitor them. But who can see in higher resolution? Who controls the size of the pixels? Interpreting these images is never straightforward.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
  
• ISBN:9780992914691
  0992914698
  
• Contents:Introduction
  The history of the before-and-after image
  The vertical gaze
  Violence in the anthropocene
  Algorithmic vision
  Ruins in reverse.