Landscape Photography Research Articles

The altered landscape as heterotopia

ABSTRACT This paper considers the contemporary photographic practices of the authors, aligning their conceptual ideas and working methodology with notions of heterotopia. It argues for a positioning within contemporary altered landscape photography that considers place as a heterotopia, a networked system or process that modifies and makes an alternative ‘territory’. In dialogue with a range of relevant authors and artists, the paper contextualises heterotopia and altered landscape spaces as layers of both cultural and ecological intervention. It asserts that an artist in a state of mobility, transit and movement, can effectively employ notions of heterotopia to inform a creative photographic practice. We build on existing heterotopologies through the photographic practices of the authors, altered landscape photography by Australian artist Shane Hulbert, and the cultural investigations of expatriation by Greek artist Ioannis Galanopoulos Papavasileiou. The artists, through phenomenology, lens-based practice and noetic synthesis, approach altered landscape photography from two divergent cultural perspectives; one through the lens of postcolonial national imaging, the other through a trans-national experience of expatriation. We propose that both the cultural and geographic counter-site of an altered landscape, and the social and psychological state of expatriation, are informed by notions of heterotopia, and therefore build on existing heterotopologies.

Evaluating Changes in Ecological Consciousness of University Students with the NEP Scale: The Effects of Studying Geography Using Landscape Photography

This study examined how studying Geography and using personal landscape photography impact university-level Physical Geography students’ ecological perspectives. A survey, employing the New Environmental Paradigm (NEP), was conducted on 77 History undergraduates at the semester’s start and end. The results showed a significant shift toward more ecologically-minded views in all students, particularly those incorporating their own photos. NEP, using a five-point Likert scale, enabled efficient analysis. The study of Physical Geography positively influenced students’ environmental attitudes, with landscape photography enhancing this effect. Therefore, adding personal landscape photos to a public repository can effectively raise environmental consciousness among university students.

Calais Topographics: A Photo Essay

The photos in this essay were taken in 2019, three years after the Jungle camp, Calais’ largest improvised refugee camp, had been cleared in 2016 and re-landscaped into an eco-park. The images focus on what I see as the ‘new topographics’ of the Calais landscape, a name borrowed from William Jenkins’ (1974, 1975) influential New Topographics exhibition from 1975 which radicalised the often romantic view of landscape photography to focus on ‘man-altered’ landscapes and infrastructures. In this series of photos, the infrastructures are those that participate in upholding the UK border in France.

Climate Change in the West

This piece documents climate change by exploring the historic development, present beauty, and threatened future of the Western United States through landscape photography. The website links to by photography, exploration, and personal research with climactic and spatial modeling techniques to visualize the impact of cliamte change on the uniquely vulnerable communities, cultures, and landscapes of the Western United States. See the full website: https://storymaps.com/stories/674559d093ad4c938f0861a55ec9dc52

Aesthetic Composition in Ansel Adams' Photography

Photography is the art and practice of capturing images or recording pictures using camera devices to create visual beauty for its audience. One of the most beloved genres of photography is landscape photography, documenting the natural beauty of a place so that it can be retold through visual communication. Ansel Adams is a world-renowned photographer and vocal environmental activist, whose work has become iconic in the world of photography in discussing the importance of preserving the natural beauty of the world. This study aims to explore and analyze the aesthetics of visual composition in Ansel Adams' photographic works. The main focus will be on how Adams utilizes the basic principles of visual composition. Using a qualitative descriptive method approach, this research analyzes Ansel Adams' legendary photographic works, exploring how aesthetics and visual composition can form a language of visual communication in photography for the general audience.

Photography and Destination Image: An Analysis of China Eastern Airline Facebook Photographs

ABSTRACT The main purpose of this study is to explore the projected destination image represented by photographs emerging in social media from a potential DMO member. The official page of China Eastern Airlines on Facebook (@CEAir) was selected as a case study, in which a total of 40 photographs were collected and classified into five groups according to their themes. To identify the destination image of China, five groups of photographs were analyzed by using visual analysis, semiotic analysis, and multimodal discourse analysis. The main findings show that Chinese food, architecture, natural landscape, people, and ethnic minorities are common signs engaging in constructing the destination image of China. These photographs mainly adopted wide shots and brilliant color tones, which convey to overseas tourists that China is a great power with a long history, full of charm, and a contributor to global development. More importantly, not only landscape photography but also still life photography, candid photography, and travel photography are all considered to be modes of representation of the destination image. Different genres of photography employ Chinese culture as a special gaze to shape the destination image.

Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography

Across the West and Toward the North: Norwegian and American Landscape Photography

Membangun Citra Destinasi melalui Kreativitas Visual: Workshop Fotografi Landscape di SMKN 7 Bandung

Formal education at Vocational High School (SMK) plays a crucial role as the final stage of secondary education, providing vocational education and skill training for students. The target partner of this Community Service activity is the students of SMKN 7 Kota Bandung, who face a lack of education in landscape photography, a skill increasingly in demand in the current digital era. The art of photography serves as a primary attraction, especially in the context of tourism that relies on visualization to enhance public interest. Students of SMKN 7 Bandung, representing the Generation Z as the nation's successors, play a crucial role as ambassadors of 'Wonderful Indonesia's tourism. In this era of information and technology, Generation Z has the potential to become the main drivers in promoting the natural beauty and cultural richness of Indonesia through photography. Through this workshop, it is expected that students, as Generation Z, can understand the importance of their role as tourism ambassadors. They are anticipated to harness their creative potential in landscape photography, utilizing social media as a platform to share the beauty of Indonesia's nature and cultural wealth. Thus, SMKN 7 Bandung becomes not only a center for vocational education but also a key pillar in shaping the image of 'Wonderful Indonesia' through the creative and innovative eyes of Generation Z.

Design of the Nirmana Dwimatra Teaching Material Book for Students of the Polimedia Photography Department

Students in the Photography department will study various photography techniques and theories, such as portrait photography, landscape photography, product photography, and documentary photography. In the photography department, students will study the techniques and process of making images, which is a form of Dwimatra art. Through the Nirmana Dwimatra course, students will understand the techniques and methods for creating quality photographic works, which apply basic art concepts, such as perspective, color, shape, and so on. Apart from that, the Nirmana Dwimatra course can also help students in the photography department to develop their creativity and imagination, as well as understand how to combine techniques and concepts in the process of creating photographic works. Therefore, the Nirmana Dwimatra course is closely related to the photography department and can help students understand and practice photography well. Therefore, there is a need for effective and interesting teaching materials related to the Nirmana Dwimatra course specifically for the Jakarta Polymedia Photography Department.
 Keywords: textbooks, Nirmana, two dimensions, photography

Jewish “Ghosts”: Judit Hersko and Susan Hiller and the Feminist Intersectional Art of Post-Holocaust Memory

This article delves into the underexplored intersection of Jewish identities and feminist art. It critically examines artworks by Judit Hersko and Susan Hiller, aligning with evolving identity constructs in contemporary aesthetics. Concepts like “postmemory” link second-generation Jewish artists to past experiences and unveil the erasure of Jewish women’s memory of Jewish genocide. Analyzing Hersko and Hiller’s diverse works, from landscape photography and sculpture to performance art, it underscores their shared pursuit: illuminating lingering “ghosts” of the Holocaust in modern landscapes. Susan Hiller’s The J Street Project represents an ongoing exploration of loss and trauma beyond the Holocaust in Germany, using archives as a dynamic, evolving phenomenon. Judit Hersko’s art calls for bearing witness to a potential climate catastrophe in Antarctica. The article culminates in the exploration of “The Memorial” (2017), an art project by the activist collective Center for Political Beauty that focuses on the resurgence of overt anti-Semitism in Germany. In essence, Hiller and Hersko confront erasures in history and nature, emphasizing justice and repair. Their art, intertwined with a project addressing contemporary anti-Semitism, serves as a testament to the enduring power of feminist art, reflecting, mourning, and transforming a world marked by historical traumas and war.

Landscape Photography Art : A stage for dialogue between two civilizations

Landscape photography is an art that takes landscape as its object of expression, decorating the landscape with a new dimension. Landscape photographers observe and capture the scenery with their eyes behind the camera while experience, discover and reproduce the beautiful scenery with their hearts, which is a process full of artistic creativity. China gains its photography techniques and art from Western pioneers, so the similarities between Chinese and Western landscape photography art are self-evident, but their differences also exist objectively. This difference originates from the differences between Chinese and western traditional cultures, thoughts, philosophies and aesthetic concepts, which are manifested in many aspects such as artistic techniques, purposes and emphases. Chinese landscape photography will further show the Chinese culture, Chinese spirit and Chinese value in the new era to the world in the exchange with Western landscape photography.

Visual imagery and the informal city: examining 360-degree imaging technologies for informal settlement representation

ABSTRACT Informal settlements are a feature of many cities worldwide, yet information about their social and spatial conditions is often limited to what can be obtained from external observation. Remote sensing and landscape photography are used to acquire information about informal settlements, but images taken from the air or at a distance obscure their complexity, advancing a reductionist imaginary of informality in the minds of outsiders. As part of a project in an informal settlement in Johannesburg, this paper explores the potential of 360-degree imagery as a realist form of spatial representation, towards highlighting the diverse spatial forms, contexts, and lived realities of the informal city. Findings demonstrate the benefits of 360-degree imagery in comparison to other spatial and visual representation methods. Findings also reveal the need for more research into the impacts of this technology on viewer perspectives and perceptions, both visual-cognitive and in terms of intersubjectivity and power relations.

Controllable multi-domain semantic artwork synthesis

We present a novel framework for the multi-domain synthesis of artworks from semantic layouts. One of the main limitations of this challenging task is the lack of publicly available segmentation datasets for art synthesis. To address this problem, we propose a dataset called ArtSem that contains 40,000 images of artwork from four different domains, with their corresponding semantic label maps. We first extracted semantic maps from landscape photography and used a conditional generative adversarial network (GAN)-based approach for generating high-quality artwork from semantic maps without requiring paired training data. Furthermore, we propose an artwork-synthesis model using domain-dependent variational encoders for high-quality multi-domain synthesis. Subsequently, the model was improved and complemented with a simple but effective normalization method based on jointly normalizing semantics and style, which we call spatially style-adaptive normalization (SSTAN). Compared to the previous methods, which only take semantic layout as the input, our model jointly learns style and semantic information representation, improving the generation quality of artistic images. These results indicate that our model learned to separate the domains in the latent space. Thus, we can perform fine-grained control of the synthesized artwork by identifying hyperplanes that separate the different domains. Moreover, by combining the proposed dataset and approach, we generated user-controllable artworks of higher quality than that of existing approaches, as corroborated by quantitative metrics and a user study.

Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 By MakedaBest, Harvard Art Museum and Yale University Press, 2021

Devour the Land: War and American Landscape Photography since 1970 By MakedaBest, Harvard Art Museum and Yale University Press, 2021

Lithuanian Landscape Photography of the 20th Century: Place Towards Space

Lithuanian Landscape Photography of the 20^th Century: Place Towards Space

Social media and optimization of the promotion of Lake Toba tourism destinations in Indonesia

Tourism is one of the largest contributors to Indonesia's foreign exchange earnings, surpassing taxation, energy, and gas. This study seeks to investigate the use of social media to optimize the promotion of Lake Toba as a tourist destination, which has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using interview techniques and live field observations, it was discovered that social media, particularly the Instagram platform, play a significant role in promoting Lake Toba tourism. The Department of Culture and Tourism of the North Sumatra Province uses landscape photography as its primary promotion method, which has proved to be more effective and interesting than conventional methods such as the distribution of brochures or the use of manuals. The capture procedure and techniques for landscape photography were carried out by professional photographers in collaboration with the Department of Culture and Tourism of the North Sumatra Province. In addition to providing information, tourism_sumut's Instagram account functions as a platform to raise public awareness about Lake Toba tourism and as a promotional medium for North Sumatra's tourist attractions on an international scale. Department of Culture and Tourism of the North Sumatra Province collaborates with travel agencies and local communities to disseminate Lake Toba tourism information.

Social media and optimization of the promotion of Lake Toba tourism destinations in Indonesia

Tourism is one of the largest contributors to Indonesia's foreign exchange earnings, surpassing taxation, energy, and gas. This study seeks to investigate the use of social media to optimize the promotion of Lake Toba as a tourist destination, which has been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic. Using interview techniques and live field observations, it was discovered that social media, particularly the Instagram platform, play a significant role in promoting Lake Toba tourism. The Department of Culture and Tourism of the North Sumatra Province uses landscape photography as its primary promotion method, which has proved to be more effective and interesting than conventional methods such as the distribution of brochures or the use of manuals. The capture procedure and techniques for landscape photography were carried out by professional photographers in collaboration with the Department of Culture and Tourism of the North Sumatra Province. In addition to providing information, tourism_sumut's Instagram account functions as a platform to raise public awareness about Lake Toba tourism and as a promotional medium for North Sumatra's tourist attractions on an international scale. Department of Culture and Tourism of the North Sumatra Province collaborates with travel agencies and local communities to disseminate Lake Toba tourism information.

Pesona Alam dalam Fotografi Landscape dalam Kerangka Analisis Isi

The choice of nature as a space for exploration, including mountains, sea and rice fields in the creation of works of art is because nature is an entity that cannot be separated from human life. The creator of this work uses observation and experimentation methods to be able to visualize nature through landscape photography. This research method is descriptive qualitative by analyzing the contents of photos and compositions. The research steps include preferences, experimental analysis and detour analysis. The choice of nature as a space for exploration, including mountains, seas and rice fields in the creation of works of art means that nature is an entity that cannot be separated from human life. Within the framework of photography techniques, it can give birth to a variety of imaginations when explored, especially through the art medium of photography.

Early Historic Appreciation of Landscapes, Their Value and the Contribution of Ansel Adam’s Photographic Art to Landscape and Nature Conservation

Antoine Furetière’s Dictionnaire universel published in 1690 was the first to present the modern meaning of the term paysage as the “aspect of a country, the territory that extends within sight”. The first landscape paintings were made in Flanders in the 15th century and depicted views of the countryside. Landscape painting of the sea and the mountains only became generalized in the 18th century, with forests and deserts becoming popular subject in the century that followed. In the 20th century, geography and ecology appropriated the meaning of landscape which then became the figuration of the biosphere integrated into a distinct territory compartment. The idea of an intrinsic value of wilderness and wild landscapes is quite recent and is based on the idea that all organisms must be protected and that the spiritual bonds that link human beings to the wild are indispensable to their mental health. Through an analysis of Ansel Adams’s letters, I hypothesize that his love for nature and his perception of how urgent it was to preserve the wilderness were the catalyst and foundation of his photographic process. Following Adams’s thinking, I propose here that landscape photography can be actively involved in nature conservation and wilderness preservation.

'Jarrod Hore, Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism'

'Jarrod Hore, Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism'