Brogden, J. (2019) Photography and the Non-Place. Springer , Cham , (218pp). ISBN 978-3-030-03918-9
Abstract
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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Item Type: | Book |
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Keywords: | urban, landscape, Memory, palimpsest, interdisciplinary discourse, representation, geography culture, creative practice, post fordism, eco-criticism, practice-led research, urban geography and urbanism |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Cultures (Leeds) > School of Media & Communication (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2024 15:06 |
Last Modified: | 05 Jul 2024 10:43 |
Published Version: | https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-0... |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | Springer |
Identification Number: | 10.1007/978-3-030-03919-6 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:214420 |