Photography and the Non-Place: The Cultural Erasure of the City

ISBN-13: 9783030039189 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 218 str.

Jim Brogden

Spis treści

1. Introduction.- 2. Walking as a Decisive Moment.- 3. Representations of the Urban Landscape.- 4. Anthropological Encounters in Non-Place.- 5. The Valedictory Landscape.

O autorze

Jim Brogden is Lecturer in Visual Communication Culture and MA Programme Leader for Film, Photography and Media at the University of Leeds, UK. 

Blurb

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.