Land matters [Elektronisk resurs] landscape photography, culture and identity / Liz Wells.

• Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1. Landscape: Time, Space, Place Aesthetics; 2. A North American Place: Land and Settlement; 3. After the Frontier: Environment and the West; 4. Pastoral Heritage: Britain viewed through a Critical Lens; 5. Views From the North: Landscape, Photography and National Identity; 6. Sense of Location: Topography, Journey, Memory; Notes; Bibliography; Index of Illustrations. 

• In this major work on landscape photography, extensively illustrated in colour and black & white, Liz Wells is concerned with the ways in which photographers engage with issues about land, its representation and idealisation. She demonstrates how the visual interpretation of land as landscape reflects and reinforces contemporary political, social and environmental attitudes. She also asks what is at stake in landscape photography now through placing critical appraisal of key examples of work by photographers working in, for example, the USA, in Europe, Scandinavia and Baltic areas, within broa 

Ämnesord

Landskapsfotografi  -- teori, filiosofi (sao)

Human geography. 

Landscape photography -- Social aspects. 

Landscape photography. 

Landscapes -- Social aspects. 

Photography. 

Genre

Electronic books.  (LCSH)

Klassifikation

TR660 .W455 2011 (LCC)

778.936 (DDC)

Pnaf (kssb/8 (machine generated))