Description
| Product ID: | 9783030039189 |
| Product Form: | Hardback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | Photography and the Non-Place |
| Subtitle: | The Cultural Erasure of the City |
| Authors: | Author: Jim Brogden |
| Page Count: | 218 |
| Subjects: | Photography and photographs, Photography & photographs, Theory of architecture, History of architecture, Historiography, Urban communities, Sociology, Theory of architecture, History of architecture, Historiography, Urban communities, Sociology |
| Description: | This book presents a critical and aesthetic defence of “non-place” as an act of cultural reclamation. 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. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Publisher Name: | Springer Nature Switzerland AG |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2019-02-25 |
