Cultural Imaginaries & Landscape photography

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Cultural Imaginaries & Landscape Photography

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Cultural Imaginaries & Landscape Photography

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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.

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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.

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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’.

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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.

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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

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Styles… Abstract

• Difficult to pinpoint a specific definition…

• Uses components of the scenery as graphic components.

• Artificiality over realistic representations.

• Examples: Paul Kenny

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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…

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Esteban Pastorino Diaz

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World Record Holder of The Longest Photographic Negative

79.37m

Covering 32.8km in Beijing, China

Esteban Pastorino Diaz

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Lauren Marsolier

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Mishka Henner