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The panoramic is one of the most achieved forms of panoptic
vision. Being able to see everything.
Today, encompassing vision evidences the problematic of apprehending the great
dimensions of metropolitan landscapes.
The gaze only registers scenes of limited reach, circumscribed by obstacles,
directed by immediate experience. It cannot extend itself over the horizon.
It is not by chance that the aerial pictures of São Paulo east region,
made by the same photographer for the project’s catalogue, bring surfaces
covered with zinc roofs and cut by train tracks and expressways. An endless ocean,
practically indiscernible.
Cassio Vasconcellos works with fragments of a panoramic view. They must be placed
at different distances, developed in different sizes. From one point of view only
they constitute the ensemble. Scale is the question presented here.
But each frame can also be observed separately. The suggestion is given: today
observation of the city imagetic register implies work. The image does not give
itself anymore to contemplation, but constitutes an analytical material. It can
be electronically manipulated, be associated with the data, inserted in devices
of location and research.
When new procedures of remote sensing and GIS place as central the question
reading data, Cassio Vasconcellos decomposes the structure of the panoramic perspective,
the basic form of the photographic image of urban landscape.
Will satellite pictures be able _ with its regional reach, capable of zooms
each time more accurate of the urban territory _ in allowing to a bigger apprehension
of its configuration and dynamics?
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