Proximity and Distance in Northern Landscape Photography: Contemporary Criticism, Curation, and Practice (Paperback)

Frontmatter 1
Contents 5
Preface and Acknowledgements 7
Introduction 9
In conversation with Olaf Otto Becker 19
Polar Expeditions: A Photographic Landscape of Sameness? 35
Memory and the Snapshot: some thoughts on photography, drawing, and writing as inscriptions of Northern landscapes 57
Distanced visuality, embodied proximity? Literary and photographic images of Finnish travel landscapes from the premodern journey to the railway era 81
Mapping Norway. Knud Knudsen and the discovery of Norway in photography 107
Aurora Borealis Recordings: Wilderness Spectacle in "Real Time" 121
Ghosting the Castle: the case of (re)landscaping in a Northern place 141
Matrix of Movement: Post-industrial Wetlands of the North West 161
The North as a fantasy playground: re-evaluating the literary influences in the landscape photography of Raymond Moore 177
Rethinking space in the landscapes of Nordic cuisine 197
Illustrations 221
Biographies of Contributors 227