Landscapes

Bates introduces landscapes as being many things for example: he says that it can be a form of advertisement to sell holidays or put on post cards or even google maps. satellite imagery is also a modern version of landscapes that we use today for our own benefits, however the field of landscape imagery has expanded from back when landscapes were painted instead of photographed and not just view of a certain space. photographer 'John Ruskin' believed that "exaggerating power of sight necessarily deprives us of the best pleasures of sight" Ruskin is trying to say that photographs sometimes revealed too much as they were 'ugly in their lack of aesthetic'. Bates also argues the point "photography catabolised the genres and values of paintings" in my opinion i think there is controversy between the truth that photography brings in landscape as what you see is what you get, however in some cases the environment is dominated by the presence of humans a...