Photography and the Non-Place: The Cultural Erasure of the City

by Jim Brogden

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 "wasteland", and is usually avoided. The sites investigated in this book are located where access and ownership are often ambiguous or in dispute; they are places of cultural forgetting. Drawing on the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3030039188
• ISBN13: 9783030039189
• Release Date: February 2019
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 218 Pages
• Weight: 1.19 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 8.3"