초기 항공사진의 기술사회 네트워크: 조지 로렌스의 샌프란시스코 대지진 사진을 중심으로

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Photographs are multi-layered recording medium. Photography contains recording of facts as well as technical and social conditions. This paper aims to show the networks of technology and society recorded in one Aerial Photography of George Lawrence’s <San Francisco in Ruins>. The structure of this paper is as follows. Chapter 1 shows the stages of professionalization and commercialization of photo studios through George Lawrence’s activities. Chapter 2 describes the process of accumulation of aerial photography technology history to Lawrence and the process of aerial photography technology being appropriated from the initial aim to the new purpose. Chapter 3 explains how George Lawrence’s studio was specialized based on industrial background at that time. Lastly, in Chapter 4, we will see the process of the government and academia taking notice of aerial photographs as a record tool for historical events and the improvement of the photographs through the government’s request for official records besides industrial demand. Based on this, we will investigate the formation process of media and the meaning that aerial photographs have as hybrid networks creatures.

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