Literature Survey

Landscape photography is a broad and varied subject but I have found that the key texts, authors, artists and images to my field are …

Camera Lucida by Roland Barthes, looking at the stadium and punctum of a photograph. Fay godwin’s Secret Forest of Dean because she went to a location where she had no memories or emotions for the landscape she simply went there to walk and understand the location and what made it so beautiful. Bill Brandt’s Literary Britain where he photographed key locations linked with British literature. Jam Southam’s Landscape Stories and his different projects, they all develop over a period of time and become a journey or time passing. Klett and Wolfe re-photographed the landscapes of the American West along with the great surveys of the West.  

Barthes, R (1982). Camera Lucida. London: Vintage. 25-28 

Healey, E (1986). The Secret Forest of Dean - Fay Godwin. Great Britain: Redcliffe Press and Arnolfini Gallery. 7-11.

Hayward, J. (1984). An Introduction By John Hayward (1951). In: Literary Britain. London: Victoria and Albert Museum.

Southam, J (2005). Landscape Stories. New York: Princeton Architectural Press. Front fold.

Fox, W.L (2001). View Finder: Mark Klett, Photography and the Reinvention of Landscape. : University of New Mexico Press.

The books/work I want to look at next, during the Easter holiday period are…

David bate. (2009). In The Landscape . In: Photography - The Key Concepts. Oxford: Berg. 89-108.

Barthes, R (1997). Image Music Text. London: Fontana Press.

Blakemore, J (2008). Black and White Photography Workshop. Cincinnati: A David & Charles Book .

Fulton, H (2001). Walking Artist. Düsseldorf: Richter.

Frank, R (2003). London/Wales. London: Thames & Hudson. 

(2013). Fifty Key Writers on Photography. Oxon: Routledge.