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 and painting allows you to create an idealised landscape and preserve the aesthetic value within in.

The painting on the left was done by painter 'Claude Lorrain' who was another who believed in the authenticity in painting before photography mechanic representation, she wanted to show that landscape was a form of desire as she could combine all the best parts of a landscape into one unlike photographs which could capture the ugly truth.




On the left you can see I have created a contact sheet of landscape photos I took in todays session, we were asked to take symmetrical photos with traditional conventions of landscape photography in it and then also a disrupted landscape, that of which reveals the 'ugly truth'.




This is the first landscape photo I chose to pick from my selection as I feel it shows the prime conventions of a traditionally landscape photo being both aesthetically pleasing and also a sense of desire showing a perspective on a given space.




This is the second landscape photo I chose to select as this one is showing how this landscape has been dominated by the presence of humans and it has the ugly truth behind it that wouldn't  necessarily be shown in a painting which I think is the point the painters I have been talking about there trying to get across.

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