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This website is for Professor Anne Spirn's "4.215J/11.309J: Sensing Place: Photographing the Urban Landscape" course at MIT.
Each student selects a physical site and photographs it throughout the semester, focusing on light, significant detail, and poetics. At the end of the semester, we develop a photo essay that pairs photographs with text to tell the story of our site.
My site consists of the railroad tracks, laboratories, and old warehouses on MIT's northwest campus. It is between Albany St., Vassar St., Pacific St. and Massachusetts Avenue. The striking industrial landscape surrounded by university and residential uses has always intrigued me, especially when trains still regularly use the tracks. I am interested in the contrasts and colors of this beautiful industrial setting.
This life
This path
This love.
A Photo Essay.
Julie Chan
2010
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The following links are for other resources that were put together for my class.
Flickr page
A compilation of my photography assignments, as well as those of my classmates.
Blog
An on-line journal of our reading responses and looking assignments.
Course Website
The course was taken in Fall 2010. It is a graduate level urban planning/architecture class at MIT (4.215J/11.309J: Sensing Place: Photography as Inquiry) taught by landscape architect Anne Spirn.
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