In Chinatown
I was able to spend a day walking the city in September.
I drove the car from Victor Harbor to the Seaford Meadows station where I parked the car, traveled by train into the city, wandered to the city for several hours, then caught the train back to Seaford Meadows, picked up the car and drove to Victor Harbor. The one way trip takes about 1.5 hours, which is longer than driving by car, but then I do not to worry about car parks. Moreover the train is free.
Chinatown, Adelaide CBD
Whilst wandering the CBD I spent a small amount time in Chinatown, which is adjacent to, and a continuation of, the Adelaide Central Market. My eye judged how the latter, is undergoing renovation and expansion, with the market extension due to open for Xmas trading.
It is the eye that has traditionally been the most important model for perceiving, conceiving, imagining, and judging representation and difference for photography. Implicit in this model is the idea of the distance between representation (the picture of ) and the particular objects in the everyday world.
In the 20th-century world is characterized by a totalizing tendency to see things in terms of pictures Photography as a technology that makes images is usually, and for the most part, identified with representation: the world is represented as a picture, and knowledge is guaranteed by the correspondence between images and entities in the world.
The above image says this is Chinatown not the Central Market. We are looking at the image of Chinatown town before the transformation of the market precinct and the images show how Adelaide has changed from its 20th century white Anglo-Australian identity. These images and similar ones are part of a visual culture that is in the process of our everyday lives becoming multicultural.
Cha time, Chinatown
What if we viewed these images as having a life of their own in the sense that they are there in a material sense,, and they shape our everyday world and its subjects? Past images press into the present moment, constantly reshaping our memory, our choices, and how we perceive the world. Images are active forces.
