Photography and the Non-Place The Cultural Erasure of the City
This book presents a critical and aesthetic defence of “non-place” as an act of cultural reclamation. Through the restorative properties of photography, it re-conceptualises the cultural significance of non-place. The non-place is often referred to as “wa
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Photography and the Non-Place “Hauntingly beautiful and powerfully resonant in its twin pursuit of photographing and theorizing the repressed ‘non-places’ left in the wake of late capitalism’s re-ordering of urban life, Brogden’s book insists on the camera’s capacity for uncovering overlooked facets of reality and thus for critiquing the ideology of progress that exiles working-class life in particular, from collective memory.” —Ulrich Baer, New York University, USA “In Brogden’s hands, photography becomes the deposit that attention pays to the forlorn and untended wastelands of the city. Eschewing the modernist’s romance with the marginal, he embraces the critical historian’s eye for the forgotten and untold. This is essential reading and viewing for anyone interested in a political poetics of space.” —Ben Highmore, University of Sussex, UK “Jim Brogden successfully weaves his impassioned lens on visual culture with his research-led practice, offering us an original and provocative haunting of the city. He powerfully exposes the contradictory forms—present yet absent—of place to reveal contested and forgotten histories of people, work, culture and conflict. For Brogden, place is filled with both the melancholia of loss and the optimism of renewal.” —Andrew Hoskins, University of Glasgow, Scotland
Jim Brogden
Photography and the Non-Place The Cultural Erasure of the City
Jim Brogden University of Leeds Leeds, UK
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