Picturing place

Landscape photography, Human ecology., Human geography.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
We cite from the cover: --
-- "With the invention of photography in the nineteenth century, the geographical imagination acquired a powerful ally. At a time when steamships, railways and the telegraph made the world physically more accessible, so photographs made it visually and conceptually more accessible. The emerging photographic practices extended the form and reach of the geographical imagination, which in turn fostered and fashioned the expectations and applications of the new photographic technologies.
Picturing Place addresses this dynamic alliance. Drawing upon work by amateur, professional and commercial photographers, upon photographs from personal albums, government reports, and corporate archives, and upon images produced as art, as record, and as data, it explores the ways in which the taking and viewing of photographs have influenced notions of space and place, landscape and identity, history and memory. The book ranges from the mid-nineteenth century to mid-twentieth century and draws upon photographic work from France, Britain, Germany, Italy, Palestine, Egypt, India, South Africa, Canada, Australia, the USA and the western Pacific.
-- Linking photographs in multiple and complex ways to other forms of evidence, it reveals how emphasis on the realism and objectivity of the photograph as a visual image has effectively masked the selectivity and subjectivity inherent in photography as an image-making practice. It demonstrates how photographs have been, and continue to be, part of the processes by which we see, we remember, we imagine: we picture place."
-- Contributors: M. Christine Boyer, Maria Antonella Pelizzari, David E. Nye, Deborah Chambers, Jens Jäger, Jeremy Foster, Brian S. Osborne, Derek Gregory, Kathleen Stewart Howe, Alison Blunt, Elizabeth Edwards, William J. Mitchell
-- Joan M Schwartz is Senior Photography Specialist at the National Archives of Canada, Ottawa.
-- James R Ryan is Lecturer in Human Geography, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland.