Photography and the Non-Place : The Cultural Erasure of the City Hardback
by Jim Brogden
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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.
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- Format:Hardback
- Pages:218 pages, 28 Illustrations, color; 9 Illustrations, black and white; XX, 218 p. 37 illus., 28 illus
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:25/02/2019
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- ISBN:9783030039189
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Only a few left - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Hardback
- Pages:218 pages, 28 Illustrations, color; 9 Illustrations, black and white; XX, 218 p. 37 illus., 28 illus
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:25/02/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030039189
