Main entry:

Giblett, Rodney James.

Title & Author:

Photography and landscape / Rod Giblett and Juha Tolonen.

Publication:

Bristol, UK ; Chicago, USA : Intellect, 2012.

Description:

253 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 22 cm.

Series:

Critical photography series, 2041-8345

Notes:
Also published in the USA by Gardners Books, Chicago in 2012.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-248) and index.
Birth of photography -- The camera -- Landscape -- The sublime -- American landscape and wilderness photography -- Australian landscape photography -- Australian wilderness photography -- New topographics: withholding judgement -- Richard Woldendorp's badlands -- Wastelands -- Nuclear landscapes -- Minescapes and disaster zones -- Photography for environmental sustainability.

Summary:

The field of landscape photography is immense and any general, introductory study like this one is bound to be selective. The book concentrates on landscape photography in the settler societies of Australia and the US. It argues that the camera and landscape photography are tools of empire.

ISBN:

9781841504728 (pbk.)
1841504726 (pbk.)

Subject:

Landscape photography.
New topographics (Photography)
Photographie de paysages.
New topographics (Photographie)
Photography.

Added entries:

Tolonen, Juha Pentti, 1941-
Critical photography series.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 277973
Call No.: BIB 213207
Status: Available