Photography and the Non-Place [electronic resource] : The Cultural Erasure of the City / by Jim Brogden.

Erişim Adresi
ISBN
9783030039196
Dil Kodu
İngilizce
Yer Numarası
EK/3635
Basım Bildirimi
1st ed. 2019.
Yayın Bilgisi
Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
Fiziksel Niteleme
XX, 218 p. 37 illus., 28 illus. in color. online resource.
İçindekiler Notu
1. Introduction -- 2. Walking as a Decisive Moment -- 3. Representations of the Urban Landscape -- 4. Anthropological Encounters in Non-Place -- 5. The Valedictory Landscape.
Özet, vb.
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. .
Konu
Photography.
Sociology, Urban.
Architecture __ History.
Collective memory.
Photography.
Urban Sociology.
Architectural History and Theory.
Memory Studies.