Description
Book SynopsisHow can photography be transformed into an active process of investigation for landscape architecture and environmental design? The second book in Godfrey's series, Active Landscape Photography, presents engaged photographic methods that turn photography into a rigorous, thoughtful endeavor for the research, planning and design of landscape places.
Photography is the most ubiquitous and important form of representation in these disciplines. Yet photography is not specifically taught as a core skill within these fields. This book creates a starting point for filling this gap. Concepts and working methods from contemporary photography and critical cultural theories are contextualized into situations encountered in the daily practice of landscape architecture and environmental design. These methods can be integrated into practices in academic and professional settings or picked up and self-taught by an individual reader. Part I: Methods presents easily
Table of Contents
Introduction; Terms, Assumptions and Concepts; Part I: Methods; Method 1 Slowing Down; Method 2 Limits; Method 3 Asking Questions; Method 4 Not Photographing; Method 5 Quick Simple Things; Method 6 Frame: Reframe; Method 7 Compositional Sets: Horizon Line, Focal Point, Near and Far; Method 8 Changing Point of View: Imagining and Embodying; Method 9 Photographing What Someone Else Sees; Method 10 Casual Composition: Note-Taking; Method 11 Time With Photographs; Method 12 Significance of the Unphotographed; Part II: Practices; Practice 1 Series: Narrative; Practice 2 Predetermined Path: Regularized Photographing; Practice 3 Distance: Stepping Back; Practice 4 Re-Photography: More Than Comparison; Practice 5 Community; Practice 6 Things Take Time: Time Takes Things; Practice 7 Joining: Combining; Practice 8 Rules: Games, Drifts, Prompts; Practice 9 Many Others: Many Interpretations; Practice 10 Narrative: Writing What You Don’t See; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index
