Tag: urban
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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…
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Jonathan Miller
Nowhere in Particular google images Jonathan Miller writing about the book in the Independent the capacity to resolve fine detail is confined to a surprisingly small area of the retina, the fovea, around which visual acuity falls off so steeply that it’s impossible to take in the details of a whole scene at a single…
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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…
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Landscape and the City
!!To be developed with documentary Since the very beginning of photography, the city has provided opportunities for the photographer: landscape and other subject matter. Detachment Daguerre’s. ‘View boulevard du temple’. First example of photograph of a person. Only rendered because he must have remained relatively still to have his shoes shined. Talbot’s views of Paris.…