Format:
xx, 218 pages
,
illustrations (chiefly color)
,
21 cm
ISBN:
9783030039189
,
3030039188
Content:
Introduction -- Walking as a decisive moment -- Representations of the urban landscape -- Anthropological encounters in non-place -- The valedictory landscape.
Content:
"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"--Back cover
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030039196
Language:
English
Keywords:
Stadt
;
Kulturverfall
;
Fotografie
;
Vergessen
;
Niedergang
