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The Topographic Imaginary - Attending to Place in Contemporary French Photography (Hardcover)
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The Topographic Imaginary - Attending to Place in Contemporary French Photography (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary French and Francophone Cultures, 84
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Since the early 1980s, art photographers from metropolitan France
have been training their lenses on ordinary landscapes throughout
the country they call home. The Topographic Imaginary is the first
book to study this important and flourishing trend. It examines
work by artists who meld documentary and creative modes to attune
viewers to places that mainstream culture tends to tune out, but
which, as Ari J. Blatt argues, are in fact more meaningful than
they initially appear. From views of building sites in Paris,
peri-urban edgelands, or a tangle of trees in a forest, to those
that ponder the play of light and shadow on roadside fields in
Normandy or the tacky colors painted on dated village shopfronts,
images that signal the emergence of a "topographic turn" in
contemporary French photography constitute new ways of seeing and
sensing France's diverse national territory. As Blatt suggests,
they also represent a visual laboratory through which to
investigate how landscape "scapes" our understanding of French
culture. In their efforts to reimagine a more traditional and
time-worn idea of France's shared common space, topographic
photographs animate conversations about capital and class; cities
and their peripheries; the politics and impact of development;
migration and borders; memory, history, and affect; empire and
postcolonialism; national identity; and the changing environment.
The Topographic Imaginary thus reveals how attending to place in
pictures provides valuable insight into the disposition of a nation
in flux.
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