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Higher Returns

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The experimental visual chapter Higher Returns explores how the historical photographic process: Cyanotype printing merges seamlessly with Computer Generated Images (CGIs). The chemical experiments in this project play with the ambiguous hybrid material form of the architectural blueprint that fuses photographic printmaking with spectral past and present architectural image production methods. The distinct picture-making process doesn’t solely represent a vertical cityscape but intentionally produces other illusionary urban spaces mediated through interweaving and reproducing historical photographic printing and promotional images of Dubai. As a published result, generating new analogue pictures of digital settings that embed and subtly suggest possible presence, aerial images of the United Arab Emirates (UAE) modern cityscapes that are never fixed or fluid: Studio imprints of what unique architecture may materialise or remain absent in future urban development within the UAE.

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  1. Department of Sociology, Goldsmiths, University of London, London, UK

    David Kendall

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  1. Birmingham City University, Birmingham, UK

    Gary Bratchford

  2. CIES-ISCTE, Lisbon, Portugal

    Dennis Zuev

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Kendall, D. (2023). Higher Returns. In: Bratchford, G., Zuev, D. (eds) Vision and Verticality. Social Visualities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-39884-1_13

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