With a focus on the settler societies of the United States and Australia,
Photography and Landscape is a new critical account of landscape photography created through a unique collaboration between a photography writer and a landscape photographer. Beginning with the frontier days of the American West, the subsequent century-long popularity of landscape photography is exemplified by images from Carleton Watkins to Ansel Adams, the New Topographics to Richard Misrach, all of whose works are considered here. Along with discussions of other contemporary photographers, this extensively illustrated volume demonstrates the influence of settler societies on landscape photography, in which skilled photographers captured the fascination with and the appeal of the land and its expanse.
The latest installment in Intellect’s Critical Photography series,
Photography and Landscape is a visually striking introduction to one of the most important modes of photography.
Cuprins
Preface
PART I
The Background and Context of Landscape Photography – ROD GIBLETT
The Birth of Photography
The Camera
Landscape
The Sublime
PART II
The Established Tradition of Landscape Photography – ROD GIBLETT
American Landscape and Wilderness Photography
Australian Landscape Photography
Australian Wilderness Photography
PART III
Contemporary Photographic Practice in Landscape – JUHA TOLONEN
New Topographics: Withholding Judgement
Richard Woldendorp’s Badlands
Wastelands
PART IV
Challenges to the Established Tradition – ROD GIBLETT
Nuclear Landscapes
Minescapes and Disaster Zones
Photography for Environmental Sustainability
Conclusion
Despre autor
Alfredo Cramerotti is a writer, curator and editor working across TV, radio, publishing, writing and exhibition making. He co-curated Manifesta 8, the European Biennial of Contemporary Art, 2010, the Maldives Pavilion and the Wales Pavilion at the 55th Venice Art Biennial, 2013, and the 4th Trienala Ladina in South Tyrol in 2013. He directs MOSTYN, Wales’ leading contemporary art institution, and the itinerant projects AGM Culture and Chamber of Public Secrets (CPS). He is Research Scholar at the European Centre for Photography Research, University of Wales, Newport, and Editor of the Critical Photography series by Intellect Books. His own publications include the book Aesthetic Journalism: How to Inform without Informing (2009) and Unmapping the City: Perspectives of Flatness (2010).