Cultural Landscape Analysis
Sylwia Jurek
N00143406
BA (hons) Photography
Year 1
Historical & Contextual Studies in Photography
Module: Understanding the Photographic Image
Tutor: Fiona Hackett
Essay Question ' ' Photographs direct the sense we make of place and it was the medium of photography which largely thought us to look at landscapes as organisations of man-made spaces. Through photography the vernacular America, in particular, have been imagined and therefore understood. ' ' Discuss these claims considering, in particular the concepts of 'cultural landscape ' and 'geographical imagining ' drawing from the work of at least two photographers.
11/12/2014
Landscape photography typically focuses on the presence of nature, but also can focus on man-made …show more content…
Their traditions and cultural values are few of the most important aspects of their understanding, because it is what shaped them, and similarly, this shaped the visual appearance of the actual geographical landscape also. Big significance, also has a gender of the audience, as women used photography to expose and enhance their identity. Photography for women was a large scale connection with the audience and it was one of the most efficient ways to express themselves back in the days when women had to fight for their rights. Similarly, people used photography as a medium to attract interest to the political facts going on at the times, for example the inequality of races and classes, back in the days. Nowadays, public uses photography as a medium that strongly grabs attention and it has a strong potential of providing the world with much more information and strength, than an actual article. The potential in photography can also be compared to our human nature. Photographs are evidence that our nature seeks to inform ourselves of the facts and ignore the myths. Photographs believe to be always unquestionable and true, due to the fact it is being used worldwide as documentary proof of economical and political …show more content…
' ' In Color ' ' Eds. Harry M. Callahan et al. New York: Little, Brown and company, 1993. Print
Adams, Robert. ' 'Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defence of Traditional Values ' ', Aperture. Millerton, New York, 1981
Nye, David E. ' 'De- realizing the Grand Canyon ' ', Emotion in Postmodernism, Ed. Gerard Hoffmann, Alfred Hornung. Heidelberg: Universistsverlay C. Winter, 1997. Print
Schwartz, J.M. ' ' The Geography Lesson: Photographs and the construction of imaginative geographies. ' ' Journal of Historical Geography, 1966. Print
Shinkle, Eugenie. ' ' Prelude to a Future: Global Risk and Environmental Apocalypse in Contemporary Landscape Photography. ' ' Westminister, UK, 2014. Print
Weston, Edward “European Colour Photography”, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 1978. Exhibition
N00143406
BA (hons) Photography
Year 1
Historical & Contextual Studies in Photography
Module: Understanding the Photographic Image
Tutor: Fiona Hackett
Essay Question ' ' Photographs direct the sense we make of place and it was the medium of photography which largely thought us to look at landscapes as organisations of man-made spaces. Through photography the vernacular America, in particular, have been imagined and therefore understood. ' ' Discuss these claims considering, in particular the concepts of 'cultural landscape ' and 'geographical imagining ' drawing from the work of at least two photographers.
11/12/2014
Landscape photography typically focuses on the presence of nature, but also can focus on man-made …show more content…
Their traditions and cultural values are few of the most important aspects of their understanding, because it is what shaped them, and similarly, this shaped the visual appearance of the actual geographical landscape also. Big significance, also has a gender of the audience, as women used photography to expose and enhance their identity. Photography for women was a large scale connection with the audience and it was one of the most efficient ways to express themselves back in the days when women had to fight for their rights. Similarly, people used photography as a medium to attract interest to the political facts going on at the times, for example the inequality of races and classes, back in the days. Nowadays, public uses photography as a medium that strongly grabs attention and it has a strong potential of providing the world with much more information and strength, than an actual article. The potential in photography can also be compared to our human nature. Photographs are evidence that our nature seeks to inform ourselves of the facts and ignore the myths. Photographs believe to be always unquestionable and true, due to the fact it is being used worldwide as documentary proof of economical and political …show more content…
' ' In Color ' ' Eds. Harry M. Callahan et al. New York: Little, Brown and company, 1993. Print
Adams, Robert. ' 'Beauty in Photography: Essays in Defence of Traditional Values ' ', Aperture. Millerton, New York, 1981
Nye, David E. ' 'De- realizing the Grand Canyon ' ', Emotion in Postmodernism, Ed. Gerard Hoffmann, Alfred Hornung. Heidelberg: Universistsverlay C. Winter, 1997. Print
Schwartz, J.M. ' ' The Geography Lesson: Photographs and the construction of imaginative geographies. ' ' Journal of Historical Geography, 1966. Print
Shinkle, Eugenie. ' ' Prelude to a Future: Global Risk and Environmental Apocalypse in Contemporary Landscape Photography. ' ' Westminister, UK, 2014. Print
Weston, Edward “European Colour Photography”, The Photographers’ Gallery, London, 1978. Exhibition