Before and After. Documenting the Architecture оf Disaster = До и после. Архитектура катастрофы и ее документация

ВЕЙЦМАНЫ ЭЯЛЬ И ИНЕС
ДО И ПОСЛЕ АРХИТЕКТУРА КАТАСТРОФЫ И ЕЕ ДОКУМЕНТАЦИЯ




3-е издание (электронное)








Москва «Стрелка Пресс» 2017

EYAL AND INES WEIZMAN
BEFORE AND AFTER DOCUMENTING THE ARCHITECTURE OF DISASTER




3-rd edition (electronic)







Moscow Strelka Press 2017

УДК 72
ББК 85
     W42

     Weizman, Eyal.
W42 Before and After. Documenting the Architecture of Disaster = До и после. Архитектура катастрофы и ее документация [Электронный ресурс] / E. Weizman, I. Weizman. — 3-rd ed. (el.). — Electronic text data (1 file pdf : 51 p.). — М. : Strelka Press, 2017. — System requirements: Adobe Reader XI or Adobe Digital Editions 4.5 ; screen 10".
         ISBN 978-5-906264-18-3
         A nuclear facility in Iran before and after an explosion, a village in Pakistan before and after a drone attack, a Cambodian 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 19th-century Paris to today’s satellite surveillance. State militaries monitor us and humanitarian organisations monitor them. But who can see in higher resolution? Who controls the size of the pixels? Interpreting these images is never straightforward.

УДК 72
ББК 85


     The source print publication: Before and After. Documenting the Architecture of Disaster / E. Weizman, I. Weizman. — Moscow : Strelka Press, 2014. — 50 p. — ISBN 978-0-9929-1469-1.


ISBN 978-5-906264-18-3

© Strelka Institute for Media, Architecture and Design, 2014

INTRODUCTION

Dresden, view to the Frauenkirche before and after its destruction, 13-14 February 1945.Ш

History is increasingly presented as a series of catastrophes. The most common mode of this presentation is the before-and-after image - a juxtaposition of two photographs of the same place, at different times, before and after an event has taken its toll. Buildings seen intact in a ‘before’ photograph have been destroyed in the one ‘after’. Neighbourhoods bustling with activity in one image are in

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