Photography and the Non-Place (eBook)

The Cultural Erasure of the City

Jim Brogden (Autor)

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2019
XX, 218 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-030-03919-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This book presents a critical and aesthetic defence of 'non-place' as an act of cultural reclamation. Through the restorative properties of photography, it re-conceptualises the cultural significance of non-place. The non-place is often referred to as 'wasteland', and is usually avoided. The sites investigated in this book are located where access and ownership are often ambiguous or in dispute; they are places of cultural forgetting. Drawing on the author's own photographic research-led practice, as well as material from photographers such as Ed Ruscha, Joel Sternfeld and Richard Misrach, this study employs a deliberately allusive intertexuality to offer a unique insight into the contested notions surrounding landscape representation. Ultimately, it argues that the non-place has the potential to reveal a version of England that raises questions about identity, loss, memory, landscape valorisation, and, perhaps most importantly, how we are to arrive at a more meaningful place. 

Jim Brogden is Lecturer in Visual Communication Culture and MA Programme Leader for Film, Photography and Media at the University of Leeds, UK. 

Inhalt

1. Introduction.- 2. Walking as a Decisive Moment.- 3. Representations of the Urban Landscape.- 4. Anthropological Encounters in Non-Place.- 5. The Valedictory Landscape.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.1.2019
• Zusatzinfo: XX, 218 p. 37 illus., 28 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Creative Practice • Culture • eco-criticism • Geography • interdisciplinary discourse • Landscape • Memory • Palimpsest • post fordism • Practice-led Research • Representation • Urban • urban geography and urbanism
• ISBN-10: 3-030-03919-6 / 3030039196
• ISBN-13: 978-3-030-03919-6 / 9783030039196