Description
Book SynopsisDiverse Practices, the third book in the Active Landscape Photography series, presents a set of unique photographic examples for site-specific investigations of landscape places. Contributed by authors across academia, practice and photography, each chapter serves as a rigorous discussion about photographic methods for the landscape and their underlying concepts. Chapters also serve as unique case studies about specific projects, places and landscape issues.
Project sites include the Miller Garden, Olana, XX Miller Prize and the Philando Castile Peace Garden. Landscape places discussed include the archeological landscapes of North Peru, watery littoral zones, the remote White Pass in Alaska, Sau Paulo and New York Cityâs Chinatown. Photographic image-making approaches include the use of lidar, repeat photography, collage, mapping, remote image capture, portraiture, image mining of internet sources, visual impact assessment, cameraless photography, transect walking and interviewing.
These diverse practices demonstrate how photography, when utilized through a set of specific critical methods, becomes a rich process for investigating the landscape. Exploring this concept in relationship to specific contemporary sties and landscape issues reveals the intricacy and subtlety that exists when photography is used actively.
Practitioners, academics, students and researchers will be inspired by the underlying concepts of these examples and come away with a better understanding about how to create their own rigorous photographic practices.
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Diverse Practices
Anne C Godfrey
Practice, Methods and Process: Photographic Representation is a Verb
Anne C Godfrey
Part I: Systems
1. Cameraless Photography at the Water’s Edge: Rethinking Collaboration and Exchange in the Littoral Zone
Phoebe Lickwar
2. Looking Through the Trees: Lidar, Archaeology, and the Possibility of Seeing Otherwise
Parker VanValkenburgh
3. Between the Rendered and the Real: Photography as a Comparative Analysis Tool
Aidan Ackerman, Robin Hoffman
4. Taking Strolls in Virtual Space: Finding the Stranger’s Path in Google Streetview Context Photography
Deni Ruggeri
Part II: Histories
5. Engaged Photography: Revealing the Miller Garden
Mark R. Eischeid
6. Photographs as Tools for Restoring the Historic Landscape of Olana
Charlotte Barrows
7. Revealing Landscapes Beyond the Monuments: Matching Past to Present Using Remote Repeat Photography
Anna Suet Tiburzi
Part III: Narratives
8. Repeat Photography's Practical Applications in Contemporary Landscape Planning and Design
Rachel Edmonds, Casey Howard, and Laurie Matthews
9. XX Miller Prize: Centering Women’s Stories Through Portraiture
Sahar Coston-Hardy, Rhiannon Sinclair
10. Photography and a Dramaturgical Approach to Sites
Brian Katen
Part IV: Moments
11. Overdrawing
Liska Chan
12. Ways of Seeing; Documenting Landscape
Hannah Durham
13. Serial Process: Serial photography as Critical Practice
Maura Rockcastle and Ross Altheimer
