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John Miller
Reconstructing a Public Sphere
- Walther & Franz Koenig Verlag
- by Ed. Alex Kitnick
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Publisher | Walther & Franz Koenig Verlag |
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ISBN | 9783960982784 |
Author(s) | Ed. Alex Kitnick |
Publication date | August 2018 |
Edition | Paperback |
Dimensions | 165 x 109 mm |
Pages | 128 |
Language(s) | Eng. ed. |
Description
John Miller's PowerPoint presentation, Reconstructing a Public Sphere, focuses on a specific location, Battery Park City and the adjacent World Trade Center in New York. It is both a photographic essay and critical text-and despite its title, Miller's most autobiographical work to date. Microsoft's PowerPoint, the heir apparent to the 35-mm slide projector, sadly now “the staple of comedy skits,” is subverted by Miller's narrative of personal memory and experience: he ponders the park's civic history and public art projects, as well as his evacuation from the area in the wake of 9/11. Upon returning to the park fifteen years later, Miller questions how public space develops from reconstruction-and the function of the public within it. Akin to the effects of photography, he considers how public space redacts local history as much as it conjures subjective memory.