Landscape as photograph

Uittreksel

In Landscape as Photograph, two experts on landscape art and photography grapple with the changing attitudes toward nature and picture making that find expression in the work of over fifty photographers. Taking as starting points the major issues that inevitably arise in an attempt to define, discuss, or evaluate landscape photographs, the authors present a series of essays on discrete approaches to landscape--Jacket.

Inhoud

1. Landscape as artistic genre -- 2. Landscape as God -- 3. Landscape as fact -- 4. Landscape as symbol -- 5. Landscape as pure form -- 6. Landscape as popular culture -- 7. Landscape as concept -- 8. Landscape as politics and propaganda.