Format:
Online-Ressource (XX, 218 p. 37 illus., 28 illus. in color, online resource)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
ISBN:
9783030039196
Series Statement:
SpringerLink
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
Content:
1. Introduction -- 2. Walking as a Decisive Moment -- 3. Representations of the Urban Landscape -- 4. Anthropological Encounters in Non-Place -- 5. The Valedictory Landscape
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030039189
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030039202
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-3-030-03918-9
Additional Edition:
Printed edition ISBN 9783030039189
Additional Edition:
Printed edition ISBN 9783030039202
Language:
English
Keywords:
Stadt
;
Kulturverfall
;
Fotografie
;
Vergessen
;
Niedergang
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-030-03919-6
