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‘Objectivity Shock’ – Prologue (‘Objectivity’ Daston/Galison)

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OS offers up the initial example of British physicist Arthur Worthington’s systemic visual classification of fluid dynamics (1877), its eventual disillusionment, and the emergence of the photograph (as a scientific record…) as the ideal analogy for the birth of the ‘Objective view’. The seismic shift in the science of seeing that followed this realisation highlighted the role and fallibility of the ‘Human Historian’ within a process bent on capturing a world set to a backdrop of perfect symmetry and regularity. OS begins this journey, and within the image history of objectivity, brings to the fore the complete reconfiguration of how we acquire knowledge.

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Mechanical records that were once regarding as the visual basis of scientific fact were shattered by the emergence of the photograph. Succeeding the eye, photography as a tool, offered a new ‘Objective view’ simultaneously highlighting the fallibility of the human observer and the universal imperfection that surrounds us.

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Blind sight, as a new way of seeing.

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-On the 2nd February 2014 a CCTV camera captured the moment when a 60 ft wide sinkhole opened up beneath the atrium exhibition space of the National Corvette Museum in Kentucky (USA) swallowing a selection of priceless cars from its collection. The camera positioned perfectly above the space filmed 8 of the museums exhibits’ being tossed like toys into the expanse below. The museum situated in the town of ‘Bowling Green’ sits atop a vast deep cave network and although rare, sinkholes are a feature of the local landscape. Of the 8 cars swallowed 6 were deemed too badly damaged to be repaired and remain in the permanent collection regardless.
+OS offers up the initial example of British physicist Arthur Worthington’s systemic visual classification of fluid dynamics (1877), its eventual disillusionment, and the emergence of the photograph (as a scientific record…) as the ideal analogy for the birth of the ‘Objective view’. The seismic shift in the science of seeing that followed this realisation highlighted the role and fallibility of the ‘Human Historian’ within a process bent on capturing a world set to a backdrop of perfect symmetry and regularity. OS begins this journey, and within the image history of objectivity, brings to the fore the complete reconfiguration of how we acquire knowledge.
-I came across this footage online during a period of research; this point of departure was initiated after originally researching into holiday destinations I visited as a child, namely the discovery of another sinkhole residing under Lake Buena Vista, EPCOT (Walt Disney World, Florida). ‘The World Showcase’, a corporate sponsored permanent worlds fair sits on the circumference of this sinkhole.
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+Mechanical records that were once regarding as the visual basis of scientific fact were shattered by the emergence of the photograph. Succeeding the eye, photography as a tool, offered a new ‘Objective view’ simultaneously highlighting the fallibility of the human observer and the universal imperfection that surrounds us.
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+Blind sight, as a new way of seeing.