Research Catalog

Title

Photography and the non-place : the cultural erasure of the city / Jim Brogden.

Author

Brogden, Jim

Publication

• Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2019]
• ©2019

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Details

Description

xx, 218 pages : illustrations (chiefly color); 21 cm

Summary

This book presents a critical and aesthetic defence of "non-place" as an act of cultural reclamation. Through the restorative properties of photography, it re-conceptualises the cultural significance of non-place. The non-place is often referred to as "wasteland", and is usually avoided. The sites investigated in this book are located where access and ownership are often ambiguous or in dispute; they are places of cultural forgetting. Drawing on the author's own photographic research-led practice, as well as material from photographers such as Ed Ruscha, Joel Sternfeld and Richard Misrach, this study employs a deliberately allusive intertexuality to offer a unique insight into the contested notions surrounding landscape representation. Ultimately, it argues that the non-place has the potential to reveal a version of England that raises questions about identity, loss, memory, landscape valorisation, and, perhaps most importantly, how we are to arrive at a more meaningful place.

Subjects

• Cities and towns
• Photography, Artistic

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Introduction -- Walking as a decisive moment -- Representations of the urban landscape -- Anthropological encounters in non-place -- The valedictory landscape.

ISBN

• 9783030039189
• 3030039188

OCLC

• on1056742750
• 1056742750
• SCSB-9355626

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library