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Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography

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Northern landscapes are both real places and representations—notions that are bound to collide in landscape photography. In this book, photographers, academics, curators, and archivists examine the...
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  • 15 September 2020
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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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Price: $35.00
Pages: 234
Publisher: transcript publishing
Imprint: transcript publishing
Series: Image
Publication Date: 15 September 2020
Trim Size: 8.86 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783837649505
Format: Paperback
BISACs: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies, PHOTOGRAPHY / Criticism, ART / Criticism & Theory
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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.

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Preface and Acknowledgements 7
Introduction 9
In conversation with Olaf Otto Becker 19
Polar Expeditions: A Photographic Landscape of Sameness? 35
Memory and the Snapshot: some thoughts on photography, drawing, and writing as inscriptions of Northern landscapes 57
Distanced visuality, embodied proximity? Literary and photographic images of Finnish travel landscapes from the premodern journey to the railway era 81
Mapping Norway. Knud Knudsen and the discovery of Norway in photography 107
Aurora Borealis Recordings: Wilderness Spectacle in "Real Time" 121
Ghosting the Castle: the case of (re)landscaping in a Northern place 141
Matrix of Movement: Post-industrial Wetlands of the North West 161
The North as a fantasy playground: re-evaluating the literary influences in the landscape photography of Raymond Moore 177
Rethinking space in the landscapes of Nordic cuisine 197
Illustrations 221
Biographies of Contributors 227