The Pedestrian. Urban Landscape Photography

A sort of introduction: Juxtaposing photographs with quotations by Robert Walser, Aldo Rossi, Gianmaria Testa, Michel de Certeau, Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, Iain Sinclair, and Cees Nooteboom.

The Pedestrian’s preferred transportation mode is obvious. Besides rail-bound mode.

The Pedestrian is widely interested: He walks through medieval cities and industrial wasteland, transportation axes and areas of tourism, centers and borders, urban and suburban as well as periurban areas, places and non-places (Marc Augé). The Pedestrian focuses on structures rather than on people. By the way, the Pedestrian’s experience shows that most places are not crowded most of the time.

This site is a homage to printed postcard booklets, too. The Pedestrian is also a sort of a – not always – resident tourist.

The Pedestrian has a background in geography (M Sc UZH). Fuzzy geocoding his photographs mostly by street names is not only his foible but also creates a sort of Verfremdungseffekt. Call it documentary fiction – photographs do not re-present the world. The sequence of the cities on this site is inspired by the travelling salesman problem (TSP).

For the curious: The Greek word σκιαί (skiai) means the shadows.

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