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Author Wells, Liz, 1948- author.

Title Land matters : landscape photography, culture and identity / Liz Wells
Published London : I.B. Tauris, 2011
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 333 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Series International library of cultural studies
International library of cultural studies.
Contents Landscape: time, space, place, aesthetics -- A North American place: land and settlement -- After the frontier: environment and the West -- Pastoral heritage: Britain viewed through a critical lens -- Views from the North: landscape, photography and national identity -- Sense of location: topography, journey, memory
Summary In this major work on landscape photography, extensively illustrated in colour and black & white, Liz Wells is concerned with the ways in which photographers engage with issues about land, its representation and idealisation. She demonstrates how the visual interpretation of land as landscape reflects and reinforces contemporary political, social and environmental attitudes. She also asks what is at stake in landscape photography now through placing critical appraisal of key examples of work by photographers working in, for example, the USA, in Europe, Scandinavia and Baltic areas, within broader art historical and political concerns. This illuminating book will interest readers in photography and media, geography, art history and travel, as well as those concerned with environmental issues
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 303-321) and indexes
Notes Print version record
Subject Landscape photography -- Social aspects
Landscapes -- Social aspects
Human geography.
Special kinds of photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- Landscapes.
Human geography
Landscapes -- Social aspects
Landskapsfotografi -- teori, filiosofi.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780857720351
085772035X
9780857730800
0857730800