Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography : : Contemporary Criticism, Curation and Practice / / ed. by Chris Goldie, Darcy White.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus PP Package 2020 Part 2
• MitwirkendeR: Bird, Nicky,; Cronin, Elizabeth,; Daly, Tim,; Goldie, Chris,; Harvey, Aileen,; Hill, Tracy,; Itälahti, Mikko,; Keister, Jessica,; Peck, Julia,; Quelvennec, Lena,; White, Darcy,; Wriedt, Anne,
• HerausgeberIn: Goldie, Chris,; White, Darcy,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2020]; ©2020
• Year of Publication: 2020
• Language: English
• Series: Image ; 171
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (234 p.)

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, Canada, 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.

Table of Contents

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