Africa
Asia
Americas
Europe
Links to my sources of inspiration (draft under construction)
Core inspiration
Peter Henry Emerson’s work in East Anglia
- Lee Friedlander monograph America by Car (2010)
- Robert Frank and Les Américains (1958)
- New Topographics
- Robert Adams: disappearing wildernesses, pointed his camera at eerily empty streets, pristine trailer parks, rows of standardised tract houses, the steady creep of suburban development in all its regulated uniformity.
- Lewis Baltz: stark photographs of the walls of office buildings and warehouses on industrial sites in Orange County.
- Alec Soth Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004).
- Nadav Kander Yangtze – The Long River (2010)
- New Topographics
- Mishka Henner No Man’s Land (2011)
- Brassai (1899-1984)
- Robert Adams
- Mark Power
- Moriyama
Landscape 1: Beauty and the Sublime
- Peter Henry Emerson’s work in East Anglia
- Fay Godwin
- Justyn Partyka
- Paul Seawright
- Helen Seer
- Hiroshi Sugimoto
Landscape 2: Landscape as a Journey
British Survey Movement
- National Photographic Records Association established by Sir Benjamin Stone in 1897. Now held in the VandA
- John Thomson (1837-1921)
- Francis Frith (1822-98)
- Paul Graham A1 – The Great North Road ;
- Chris Coekin’s monograph The Hitcher (2007)
- Donovan Wylie
- Liz Nicol the Rubber Band Project (1997)
- Ian Brown’s series Walking the Land (2007)
United States
- Timothy O’Sullivan (1840–82) ignores pictorial conventions and is bleaker and more challenging, representing the land as alien, inhospitable and unwelcoming.
- Lee Friedlander monograph America by Car (2010)
- Walker Evans (1903–75) American Photographs (1938)
- Robert Frank and Les Américains (1958)
- Alec Soth Sleeping by the Mississippi (2004).
- Robert Adams: disappearing wildernesses, pointed his camera at eerily empty streets, pristine trailer parks, rows of standardised tract houses, the steady creep of suburban development in all its regulated uniformity.
- Lewis Baltz: stark photographs of the walls of office buildings and warehouses on industrial sites in Orange County.
- Joe Deal
- Frank Gohlke
- Nicholas Nixon: innercity development: skyscrapers that dwarfed period buildings, freeways, gridded streets and the palpable unreality of certain American cities in which pedestrians seem like interlopers.
- John Schott
- Stephen Shore : shot in colour. It seemed to heighten the sense of detachment in his photographs of anonymous intersections and streets.
- Henry Wessel, Jr
- Bernd and Hilla Becher
Appropriated image
Travel
- Nadav Kander Yangtze – The Long River (2010)
- Google Earth (2005): allows users to make a journey to literally anywhere in the world from the comfort of their computer, scrolling around sites of interest from the vantage point of Google’s satellite images.
- Google Street View (2007): is limited in terms of its global coverage, but provides a more intimate, street-level view of our landscape.
- No Man’s Land (2011) by Mishka Henner
- Brassai (1899-1984)
- Robert Adams
- Mark Power
- Moriyama
Landscape 3: Landscape as Political Text
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