Main Street

Submitted by Joël Gauthier on Tue, 03/15/2011 - 15:53

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Main Street est une collection de photographies panoramiques de Danny Singer, réalisées dans des petites villes rurales des Prairies canadiennes. L'internaute navigue d'une photo à l'autre à l'aide d'un menu où les noms des villes sont listés par ordre alphabétique ou à l'aide des deux flèches situées de part et d'autre de l'image. Il est possible de trier les photos en fonction des saisons (photos hivernales ou photos estivales). En cliquant sur les longues photographies panoramiques de Singer, l'internaute zoome sur celles-ci et peut les faire défiler en les agrippant et en les faisant glisser (click & drag), ce qui permet d'en apprécier les détails. En trame sonore, on entend une musique discrète accompagnée du murmure incessant d'un annonceur radio récitant les nouvelles économiques agricoles.

Une barre de menu au bas de l'écran donne accès à un texte informatif sur le projet et à une liste de films du National Film Board of Canada abordant des thématiques similaires.

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Hosting website:

National Film Board of Canada

Hosting website URL:

http://www.nfb.ca/

Date of last consultation:

March 15, 2011

Coordonnées de l'artiste:

ds@dannysinger.net

Groupe de recherche:
NT2

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We hear a lot about Main Street. Politicians and pundits talking about the impact of policies on constituents, small business people, soccer moms, and anyone else invested in the markets. They use it as a metaphor, the counterpoint to Wall Street, Bay Street and every other centre of consolidated economic power. But they forget. Main Street is real. And it's beautiful. And you can go there.

Notes

Main Street is real. Danny Singer has been there. Most of the towns he photographs are a couple of miles off major highways and usually missed by passing travellers. For Singer turning into these small prarie towns is about getting to explore the social, cultural, and commercial centres of these communities. He knows many of these towns have uncertain futures but is often struck by the concise, linear nature of these matured rural front streets, which still manage to suggest possibilities for renewal, reinvention and growth. He constructs his works by carefully stitiching together hundreds of individual exposures with digital editing software. The resulting compositions - which can be as much as 10 feet in length - emerge as an all-inclusive, seamless prospect which has a unique "floating-point" perspective. You can see more of his work at dannysinger.net.

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Main Street

Singer, Danny