Category: Landscape
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Don McCullin
The Landscape brings together for the first time a collection of McCullin’s landscape photography, primarily set against the stormy backdrop of Somerset, where he now resides. The imagery of his home county, ravaged by storms, projects the associations of a battlefield or the views of one intimate with scenes of war. The book also features…
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John Gossage
John Gossage (born 1946) is an American photographer working from Washington DC. His artist’s books and other publications use his photographs to explore the interplay between landscapes, urban environments, and the unseen or overlooked aspects of the places that are part of our everyday lives. His work not only captures the aesthetic of these locations but also invites viewers…
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Urbex
Beauty in Decay: On-line slideshows to music Short documentary video I do not find this as powerful as the still shot slideshows. Read on-line http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4ixdny_download-beauty-in-decay-urbex-free-books_news
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Fay Godwin
Fay Godwin (17 February 1931 – 27 May 2005) was a British photographer known for her black-and-white landscapes of the British countryside and coast. Official website British Library archive: including approximately 11,000 exhibition prints, the entire contents of her studio, and correspondence with some of her subjects. Google images detailed overview of her work from…
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Psychogeography and the ‘Edgelands’
Psychogeography is essentially the broad terrain where geography – in terms of the design and layout of a place – influences the experience, i.e. the psyche and behaviour, of the user. It has walking as a central component (Alexander 2013 p74) Guy Debord (1931–94) leader of The Situationist International defined psychogeography as follows: “Psychogeography could set for itself…
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Thomas Struth
Thomas Struth (born 11 October 1954) is a German photographer who is best known for his Museum Photographs series, family portraits and black and white photographs of the streets of Düsseldorf and New York taken in the 1970s. Struth currently lives and works between Berlin and New York. http://www.thomasstruth32.com/bigsize/index.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Struth Urban Dusseldorf http://www.thomasstruth32.com/bigsize/photographs/duesseldorf/index.html In 1976, as part of a student exhibition at the Academy,…
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Toshio Shibata
The photographs of Toshio Shibata achieve a unique harmony by focusing on the interweaving and equilibrium of natural forces with man-made objects and structures. The question of beauty is personal of course. And the places I photograph are actually quite ordinary. They may be found in locations where the surroundings (mountains, sea, and sky) are…
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Origins of the Picturesque and aesthetic consumerism
In the second half of the eighteenth century, definitions of types of landscape or view, seen from an aesthetic or artistic point of view distinguished between: the sublime (awesome sights such as great mountains) the beautiful, the most peaceful, even pretty sights. See discussion in Part 1 Beauty and the Sublime In between came the picturesque, views…
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Simon Roberts
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Paul Shambroom
website Shambroom is conducting a long-term investigation of power. This started with series on nuclear weapons, factories and corporate offices. He then focused on homeland security training and preparation. His images are influenced by painting traditions, including Dutch landscape painting. Meetings Series These photographs emphasize the theatrical aspects of meetings: There is a “cast”, a…