Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography: Contemporary Criticism, Curation and Practice (Image)

Northern landscapes are both real places and representations, imagined spaces – notions which are bound to collide in landscape photography. In this book, photographers, academics, curators, and archivists from Germany, Finland, Scandinavia, the US, and the UK address urgent questions about environmental degradation, globalization, consumerism, and the role of new technologies of representation in relation to landscape. Wide-ranging case studies examine the interpretation, experience, and appropriation of landscape in northern Europe, northern England, Scotland, and the Nordic countries. The book explores tensions in landscape photography between an emphasis on proximity and the embodied experience of place and space, and an advocacy of distance and critical engagement and a questioning of the primacy of direct experience.

Darcy White is principal lecturer in visual culture in the Department of Media Arts and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University.

Chris Goldie is formerly senior lecturer, currently honorary research fellow, in the Department for Media Arts and Communication, Sheffield Hallam University.