Land Matters: Landscape Photography, Culture and Identity

by Liz Wells

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.

Genres: Photography, Art

352 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2011

Reviews

[Ian Thompson · Rating 5 out of 5]

I'm thoroughly enjoying this so far. Liz Wells is well up on her landscape theory as well as her history and theory of photography. I'm rather wishing we'd invited her to contribute a chapter to the Routledge Companion to Landscape Studies. A bit of a gap there.

[s2artM · Rating 4 out of 5]

Easy read and impassioned treatise on the idea of and surrounding landscape and landscape photography