Research Catalog

Title

Land matters : landscape photography, culture and identity / Liz Wells.

Author

Wells, Liz, 1948-

Publication

London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2011.

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Details

Description

333 pages : color illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

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 broader art historical and political concerns. This illuminating book will interest readers in photography and media, geography, art history and travel, as well as those concerned with environmental issues.

Series Statement

International library of cultural studies ; 6

Uniform Title

International library of cultural studies ; 6.

Subjects

• Landscape photography
• Human geography
• Landscapes > Social aspects
• Landscape photography > Social aspects

Genre/Form

Landscape photography.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-321) and indexes.

Contents

Landscape: time, space, place, aesthetics -- A North American place: land and settlement -- After the frontier: environment and the West -- Pastoral heritage: Britain viewed through a critical lens -- Views from the North: landscape, photography and national identity -- Sense of location: topography, journey, memory.

ISBN

• 9781845118655
• 1845118650
• 9781845118648
• 1845118642

LCCN

2011293251

OCLC

• ocn751532069
• 751532069
• SCSB-1616582

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library