1st Edition

Shifting Horizons Women's Landscape Photography Now

Edited By Catherine Fehily, Kate Newton, Liz Wells Copyright 2001
    144 Pages
    by Routledge

    144 Pages
    by Routledge

    Throughout the history of photography the genre of landscape has been dominated by male perspectives. In this work, ten women photographers interpret the notion of landscape from a variety of perspectives.

    Introduction - between seeing and knowing, Liz Wells; writing water in its absence, Asa Andersson; face, Julia Peck; the present can never be whole, Maddle Farm 1997-8, Lou Spence; on being able to see the wood and the trees, Roberta McGrath; notes on beauty and landscape, David Bate; pathways to memory, Gina Glover; undercurrents, Sian Bonnell; wilderness dreams, Stevie Bezencenet; park, Michelle Atherton; the waves, Sally Waterman; landscape of imminence - Brenda Pelkey, Martha Langford; the rubber band project IV, Liz Nicol; from the series "Scenario", journey (from analogue to digital), out there/in there, Su Grierson; ladies and the landscape, Sue Swingler; a conditional presence - women, landscape photographers in Europe, John Stathatos; in the steps of Robert Pinnacle, Kate Mellor; the head people from the series "Sweetness and Light", Roshini Kempadoo; envisioning - processes and practices, Liz Wells.

    Biography

    Liz Wells is Senior Lecturer at the School of Media Arts, University of Plymouth. Catherine Fehily is Founder and Director of IRIS--The Women's Photography Project at Staffordshire University. Kate Newton (Edited by)