Tag: urban landscape

  • Francois_Xavier Gbre Rough Notes

    Mali  website No artist’s statement or introduction. Very simple white portfolio site. Has links to exhibitions and press releases etc. Tracks  review  very atmoshperic view of urban decay Mali Militari Mes tissages urbains

  • Willie Doherty

    Willie Doherty (born 1959) is an artist from Northern Ireland, who has mainly worked in photography and video. His website images Doherty was born in Derry, Northern Ireland, and from 1978 to 1981 studied at Ulster Polytechnic in Belfast. Many of his works deal with The Troubles. As a child he witnessed Bloody Sunday in…

  • Industrial and post-industrial landscapes

    Some activist photographers have been mainly concerned with industrial and post-industrial landscapes. Here big industry becomes the ‘new sublime’ to be feared and confronted in the hope of change and avoiding disaster. Mitch Epstein Ed Burtynsky Other photographers have avoided any overt messages, rather asking questions to which the viewer may have different answers. These…

  • 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…

  • New Topographics

    The most significant influence on contemporary landscape practice was the exhibition“New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape” was  curated by William Jenkins at the International Museum of Photography at the George Eastman House (Rochester, New York) in January 1975. The exhibition was intended for a gallery audience and subverted traditional notions of landscape photography in favour of a new…

  • 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