Sound Horn Proceed with Caution

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Theo Baart

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Sound Horn

Proceed with caution

2011 |Rochester, NY is the home town of the Kodak company. Hard hit by rapid changes in the photography industry the company and many suppliers went into decline. The city lost a big part of its manufacturing jobs. The city center is suffering. Many people left the town for the more affluent suburbs.

In Sound Horn | Proceed with Caution, Theo Baart is looking for the answer to the question why a city with an intensive knowledge economy is shrinking. How does that shrinkage manifest itself and what does the future hold for a city stripped of its livelihood?

Theo Baart interviewed 20 people. Three of those interviews are included in this publication combined with an essay.

‘Sound Horn | Proceed with Caution’ was presented as part of ‘Transitions’. It was initiated by Cary Markerink and Theo Baart in collaboration with VSW and George Eastman House in Rochester and FOTODOK in Utrecht, the Netherlands. Andrea Stultiens, Oscar Palacio, Greg Halpern, Juliana Muniz, Dan Varenka and FUA Krew were invited to participate in this project. Six small ‘cahiers’ has been published. There were exhibitions in George Eastman House and Visual Studies Workshop in Rochester, NY in the autumn of 2011.