{"id":321,"date":"2010-07-31T14:38:43","date_gmt":"2010-07-31T19:38:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/?p=321"},"modified":"2018-12-17T18:37:10","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T00:37:10","slug":"watching-observation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/2010\/07\/31\/watching-observation\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching, Observation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As both a sociologist and a photographer, it&#8217;s hard not to think a lot about observation.  While I haven&#8217;t systematically addressed the topic, I have been slowly acquiring photographs of people quietly focusing their attention on a clear subject when I&#8217;m out in the world doing the same thing.  I&#8217;m particularly intrigued by the relationship between the internal and external action in the scenes.   I&#8217;ve included a few of those images below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/3813069039\/\" title=\"Watching, Residential Juxtaposition by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3554\/3813069039_116e80182b.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"361\" alt=\"Watching, Residential Juxtaposition\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/4582719540\/\" title=\"Watching, Crawford Generating Station by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4007\/4582719540_9e5f28c500.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"351\" alt=\"Watching, Crawford Generating Station\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/444572503\/\" title=\"Watching the ABLA Demoltion by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm1.static.flickr.com\/214\/444572503_560eae39df.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"360\" alt=\"Watching the ABLA Demoltion\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/3700493122\/\" title=\"Watching the Blaze by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2662\/3700493122_87212645ff.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"357\" alt=\"Watching the Blaze\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/3813052829\/\" title=\"Watching, Three Abandoned by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2507\/3813052829_2b757d732a.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"308\" alt=\"Watching, Three Abandoned\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/4789460516\/\" title=\"Watching the Maneuvering from Above Ardoyne by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4102\/4789460516_78f88f69c5.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Watching the Maneuvering from Above Ardoyne\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/metroblossom\/3841495956\/\" title=\"Watching, Lafayette Building by metroblossom, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2484\/3841495956_2af3094d90.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"341\" alt=\"Watching, Lafayette Building\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As both a sociologist and a photographer, it&#8217;s hard not to think a lot about observation. While I haven&#8217;t systematically addressed the topic, I have been slowly acquiring photographs of people quietly focusing their attention on a clear subject when I&#8217;m out in the world doing the same thing. I&#8217;m particularly intrigued by the relationship [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[93,10,33,100,102,101],"class_list":["post-321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photograph","category-text","tag-belfast","tag-chicago","tag-detroit","tag-observation","tag-people","tag-watching"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pFuNp-5b","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":333,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321\/revisions\/333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidschalliol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}