Landscape, Place and Environment
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Bates begins the essay by stating photography's negative relationship to memory in the sense that what is missing or not seen within a photograph. This seems to relate to the 'truth' of a photograph and how an image might be 'read'. He also goes on to state photography as a mnemonic device and it's specific …
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'The Naze', Walton The East of England coastline has changed significantly over the last 2000 years sadly mostly due to coastal erosion. The soft 'Red Crag' cliffs are being lost at a rate of anything up to two metres a year. (LOST TOWN | Background |, 2020) Going way, way back, 50 million years ago …
The background to Dara McGrath's "Project Cleansweep" is a project consisting of images of uninhabited islands in the UK used for chemical testing by the MOD. The images presented are beautiful. These uninhabited spaces have a stillness and natural beauty, many of which have been untouched by humans for up to a hundred years. These …
David Campany - Safety in numbness David Campany's essay explores the subject of what has become known as 'Late photography'. It relates to the position of the still image as having a type of memorial status as opposed to the 'real time' action of video and cinematic mediums. Campany looks specifically at the work of …
Whilst one of these was sent to me, the others are what I've bought whilst away and then not sent usually because I've forgotten stamps. The four outer postcards are all Lake District. Upper right is Derwentwater and the Catbells ridge. This is probably the truest representation of the place. I could easily find that …
The word picturesque refers to an ideal type of landscape that has an artistic appeal, in that it is beautiful but also with some elements of wildness(Picturesque – Art Term | Tate, 2020) Blencathra The image above was taken during 'Beast from the East'. I was lucky enough to be up in Keswick and I'd …
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