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

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

Brogden, Jim

Hardcover

General ArchitectureGeneral PhotographyArchitecture History

ISBN10: 3030039188
ISBN13: 9783030039189
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Feb 25 2019
Pages: 218
Weight: 1.19
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
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.

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