A Digital Image, as a Holistic Mediator, of the Barbed Relooking of the Urban Landscape

Abstract

A barbed obstacle, as a linear, spatial and public element, has become a symbolic database, of ergonomic design, for a one-way contact that modifies the recent viewpoint. The present-day anonymous inhabitant in the local cultural heritage becomes the universal consumer of the global village, accepting the barbed installations as easily portable boundaries towards an uncomfortable happy ending. In the up-to-date research, digital photography, as the evidential representation of the supplement of the urban space, acquires the features of the common place, where the relations of individuality and individualism, pluralism and collectivism are intertwined in the forms of unpredicted eventfulness. The visual sequence of the place recorded abandons the anecdotal topicality for its own decontextualization as an anticipated work of art and its own autonomy through the truthfulness of experiential pluralities. The role of the photographic eye remains decisively valuable in the transfer of public space into a public panel.