Liz Wells

Land Matters

Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In this major work on landscape photography, extensively illustrated in colour and black & white, Liz Wells is concerned with the ways in which photographers engage with issues about land, its representation and idealisation

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 141mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 624g
• ISBN-13: 9781845118648
• ISBN-10: 1845118642
• Artikelnr.: 33079070

Autorenporträt

Liz Wells writes and lectures on photographic practices. She edited The Photography Reader (2003), and Photography: A Critical Introduction (2009, 4th edn.) and is also co-editor of Photographies, the Routledge journals. Liz Wells's exhibitions as curator include Uneasy Spaces (New York, 2006), Facing East: Contemporary Landscape Photography from Baltic Areas (UK tour, 2004-2007), Chrystel Lebas and Sofija Silvia: Conversations on Nature (Rijeka, Croatia, 2011) and Landscapes of Exploration, recent British art from Antarctica (forthcoming, 2012). She is Professor in Photographic Culture, Faculty of Arts, University of Plymouth, UK, and convenes the research group for Land/Water and the Visual Arts.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction1 Landscape: Time
Space
Place
Aesthetics2 A Northern Place: Land and Settlement3 After the Frontier: Environment and the West4 Pastoral Heritage: Britain Viewed Through a Critical Lens5 Views of the North: Landscape
Photography and National Identity6 Sense of Location: Topography
Journey
MemoryBibliographyIndex