Currently Out Of Stock
Photography and the non-place
Hardback
€83.99
Collect 251 Reward Points
- Currently Out Of Stock
- Book Synopsis
- 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.
- About The Author
- Jim Brogden is Lecturer in Visual Communication Culture and MA Programme Leader for Film, Photography and Media at the University of Leeds, UK.
- Product Details
-
- ISBN
- 9783030039189
- Format
- Hardback
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan, (25 February 2019)
- Number of Pages
- 218
- Weight
- 540 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 210 x 148 x 19 mm
- Categories: