Photography and the Non-Place: The Cultural Erasure of the City (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9783030039189)

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.

Author: Jim Brogden
ISBN-10: 3030039188
ISBN-13: 9783030039189
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 02/25/2019
Pages: 218
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.19lbs
Size: 8.27h x 5.83w x 0.81d