Edge of a dream : utopia, landscape & contemporary photography / editor, Virginia Nimarkoh

Author(s): Gill, Simryn | Halliday, Paul | Nimarkoh, Virginia

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Main Title
Edge of a dream : utopia, landscape & contemporary photography
Author(s)
Nimarkoh, Virginia
Gill, Simryn
Halliday, Paul
Publisher
London : Affram Books, 2011
Collation
120 pages : illustrations (some color)
23 cm
Summary
"Edge of a Dream is a collaborative project that brings together the work of four visual artists and four writers. It is a timely look at the subject of utopia in recent landscape photography and its relation to the critique of global capitalism. This book will be of value to those with an interest in photography, the environment and the politics of landscape."--back cover.
ISBN
9780956645005
Dewey Class
778.936
Contents
Introduction. Paul Halliday: Landscape and its Ecotones -- Simryn Gill: Standing Still -- Mandy Lee Jandrell: Eidyllion -- Virginia Nimarkoh: Urban Utopias -- David Spero: Settlements -- Anthony Iles: Photography on the Commons: an essay on landscape, politics and representation -- Kate Soper: Edge of a Drea: 'utopic' photography and the political mediation of aesthetic response -- John Wood: Shadows of Utopia -- Research Documentation -- Biographies -- Credits.
Language
English
Subject
Landscape photography
Utopias in art
Politics in art
BRN
9792

Notes

  • Simryn Gill, Paul Halliday, Anthony Iles, Mandy Lee Jandrell, Virginia Nimarkoh, Kate Soper, David Spero, John Wood.

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