23 juin 2017 - Chiara Salari, Beyond wilderness: landscape re-photographic practices and the American West
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2 septembre 2017
- doi: 10.58079/m6q6
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Camille Rouquet, « 23 juin 2017 - Chiara Salari, Beyond wilderness: landscape re-photographic practices and the American West », Camera Memoria, ID : 10.58079/m6q6
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This paper investigates the role of photography in the construction and deconstruction of “visual identities” for the American West (from the wilderness myth to man-altered landscapes), analyzing the power of photographic traces of the past to create a “collective memory” for imaginary identifications, between regional or local characteristics and national or global aspirations. The practice of re-photography is considered in a wider and plural sense: the precise technique of relocating the ...