cultural imaginaries & landscape photography
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Cultural Imaginaries & Landscape Photography
Cultural ImaginariesS. Hall – ‘New Cultures for Old’ A Place in the World
• Culture – systems of shared meanings which people who belong to the same community, group or nation use to help them interpret and make sense of the world.
• Meanings are not intrinsic (fixed in) objects. We give them meaning by interpreting them through our own cultural frameworks.
• Like Language, culture is a means of constructing meaning. ‘Snow doesn’t know it’s called snow’ – We agree upon it.
Cultural ImaginariesS. Hall – ‘New Cultures for Old’ A Place in the World
• National cultures are Imagined communities (Anderson, 1983)
• ‘Placing cultures.’ To unify communities. But this is imagined.
• But we continue to think this way as nations for the sake of belonging and our identities.
Landscape PhotographyWhat is it? (Purist Sense)
• The branch of photography dealing with the representation of natural scenery.
• A focus on the natural world.
• Its subjects can be whatever is outside… Although not ‘botanical photography’.
Styles… Representational
• The most ‘natural’ or realistic style of Landscape Photography.
• Lack of artificial components.
• Of course, framing, lighting and composition of the photograph remain important.
Styles… Impressionistic
• Landscape photography that gives an impression of a landscape as opposed to a true representation of one.
• It carries a vague sense of reality in the image of the landscape.
Examples: Morag Paterson & Ted Leeming
Styles… Abstract
• Difficult to pinpoint a specific definition…
• Uses components of the scenery as graphic components.
• Artificiality over realistic representations.
• Examples: Paul Kenny
Cultural Imaginaries & Landscape Photography
Photographers can reflect their perspective on subjects through their photographs.
Photographers may look at a subject in a different way to another person. They can communicate a new message through the way they represent a landscape in an image…
Esteban Pastorino Diaz
World Record Holder of The Longest Photographic Negative
79.37m
Covering 32.8km in Beijing, China
Esteban Pastorino Diaz
Lauren Marsolier
Mishka Henner