coigach
11th July 2010, 01:02 PM
Hello all,
Thought it would be interesting to ask a question about the relationship between writing (non-photography!) and your photography. I've always been very influenced by writing in my approach to photography, perhaps more than anything else.
The following books and witers have helped me consider my approach to my landscape photography, particularly because they build up 'layers' of perception about specific places over a lifetime. All of these writers have a very particular geographic context, and over the course of a lifetime their work has added to the meanings of the places they write and care about. All stress the relationship between people and place, the cultural history and context of landscape.
-‘The Poems of Norman MacCaig’
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poems-Norman...9884799&sr=1-2
-‘Aotromachd – Lightness and other poems’ by Meg Bateman
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lightness-Ot...9884616&sr=1-8
-‘On the Other Side of Sorrow – Nature and People in the Scottish Highlands’, by James Hunter
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Other-Side-Sorrow-Scottish-Highlands/dp/1851587659/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278852995&sr=1-5
-‘Connemmara – Listening to the Wind’ by Tim Robinson
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Connemara-Li...9883930&sr=1-1
Anybody else have any books / writers that have influenced their photography?
Cheers,
Gavin
Thought it would be interesting to ask a question about the relationship between writing (non-photography!) and your photography. I've always been very influenced by writing in my approach to photography, perhaps more than anything else.
The following books and witers have helped me consider my approach to my landscape photography, particularly because they build up 'layers' of perception about specific places over a lifetime. All of these writers have a very particular geographic context, and over the course of a lifetime their work has added to the meanings of the places they write and care about. All stress the relationship between people and place, the cultural history and context of landscape.
-‘The Poems of Norman MacCaig’
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Poems-Norman...9884799&sr=1-2
-‘Aotromachd – Lightness and other poems’ by Meg Bateman
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Lightness-Ot...9884616&sr=1-8
-‘On the Other Side of Sorrow – Nature and People in the Scottish Highlands’, by James Hunter
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Other-Side-Sorrow-Scottish-Highlands/dp/1851587659/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1278852995&sr=1-5
-‘Connemmara – Listening to the Wind’ by Tim Robinson
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Connemara-Li...9883930&sr=1-1
Anybody else have any books / writers that have influenced their photography?
Cheers,
Gavin