Jim Brogden

Photography and the Non-Place

The Cultural Erasure of the City

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan / Springer International Publishing / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 978-3-030-03918-9
• 1st ed. 2019
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Februar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 153mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9783030039189
• ISBN-10: 3030039188
• Artikelnr.: 54210329

Autorenporträt

Jim Brogden is Lecturer in Visual Communication Culture and MA Programme Leader for Film, Photography and Media at the University of Leeds, UK. 

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction.- 2. Walking as a Decisive Moment.- 3. Representations of the Urban Landscape.- 4. Anthropological Encounters in Non-Place.- 5. The Valedictory Landscape.