Found Image: Beijing Before And After The Smog

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Kyung-Hoon, Kim, Lee, Jason, Reuters. "The viewing deck on the China Central Radio and Television Tower." Digital Image. The Guardian. December 2015, https://www.theguardian.com/cities/gallery/2015/dec/08/beijing-air-pollution-red-alert-smog-before-after-pictures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other.

Schütz, Tim. 2018. “Beijing Before And After The Smog” In Toxic News, created by Tim Schütz. In Visualizing Toxic Subjects Digital Exhibit, curated by James Adams and Kim Fortun. The Center for Ethnography. March.

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  • The image uses juxtaposition that has comparative dimensions that accounts for the multiplicity of a single place
  • The pictures highlight a situated place or angle from which one can 'see' toxicity
  • The juxtaposition addresses toxicity through binaries such as 'clean' and 'polluted'

I find the image interesting for its comparative dimension, which appears blunt in the beginning but also becomes stale the longer I look at it. In contrast to the other pictures I selected, it also comes without any reference or extra information to pollution, e.g. in the form of data.  

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