Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography

Darcy White

ISBN 10: 3837649504 / ISBN 13: 9783837649505

Published by Transcript Verlag Apr 2025, 2025

About this Item

Neuware - 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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography
• Publisher: Transcript Verlag Apr 2025
• Publication Date: 2025
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3837649504
• ISBN 13: 9783837649505
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 225W x 148H x 17D millimeters 225 millimeters width by 148 millimeters height by 17 millimeters depth
• Weight: 370 grams

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Synopsis

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.

About the Authors

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.