Photography and Landscape

"Photography and Landscape", Rod Giblett and Julia Tolonen, Intellect, Bristol, UK and Chicago USA, 2012.

Rod Giblett, from Preface Part I:

"I define landscape photography as the creative, photographic inscription of the visual appreciation for the surface of the land in the three major aesthetic modes of the sublime, the picturesque and the beautiful...

Photography was made for the landscape; landscapes have been remade for photography; and landscape photography has remade the way land is seen. It is one of the major ways in which modern, technologically savvy people relate to the land and the land is mediated to them".