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Record Nr.

UNINA9910791702403321

Titolo

Photography and landscape [[electronic resource] /] / Rod Giblett and Juha Tolonen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bristol, UK ; ; Chicago, : Gardners Books, 2012

ISBN

1-299-47538-8

1-84150-691-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

GiblettRodney James

TolonenJuha Pentti <1941->

Disciplina

778.936

Soggetti

Landscape photography

Outdoor photography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Half-Title; Copyright; Title; Dedication; Contents; The Editor to the Reader; Authors' Note; Preface; PART I The Background and Context of Landscape Photography; 1 The Birth of Photography; 2 The Camera; 3 Landscape; 4 The Sublime; PART II The Established Tradition of Landscape Photography; 5 American Landscape and Wilderness Photography; 6 Australian Landscape Photography; 7 Australian Wilderness Photography; IMAGES; PART III Contemporary Photographic Practice in Landscape; 8 New Topographics: Withholding Judgement; 9 Richard Woldendorp's Badlands; 10 Wastelands

PART IV Challenges to the Established Tradition11 Nuclear Landscapes; 12 Minescapes and Disaster Zones; 13 Photography for Environmental Sustainability; Conclusion; References; Acknowledgements; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Photography and Landscape is a unique collaboration between a writer about photography and a landscape photographer that provides a new critical account of landscape photography which focuses on the settler societies of the United States and Australia.