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Watching, Waiting

By Sandra Krizic Roban

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Watching, Waiting

By Sandra Krizic Roban

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In the aftermath of Covid-19, the subject of 'empty places' has gained renewed topicality and resonance. Watching, Waiting presents a collection of essays that brings emptiness into interdisciplinary focus as an object of study that extends beyond the present. The contributors approach the specific interrelationships of photography and place through emptiness by considering historical and contemporary material in equal measure. Drawing on architecture, anthropology, sociology, and public health, among other fields, they provide insights into geographically and temporally diverse production models of empty places and their corresponding complex and sensitive global and local relations, while also tackling the ethics of behaviour and protests that unfold within them. The book's chapters, both photographic and scholarly essays, cover areas that range widely both thematically and geographically, spanning static film footage of Nicosia's Buffer Zone, protest photographs in the wake of the Black Lives Matter movement in Bristol, staged images from the University of Zagreb's ethnological archives, historic landscape and architectural photography, aerial shots of Covid-19 mass graves in Brazil, photos of artificially built field hospitals and quarantine rooms during the pandemic, and images of empty airports at night. Through still and moving images, Watching, Waiting examines the photographic aestheticisation of emptiness, existing stereotypes of 'empty places', and transformations of human experiences. Sandra Križi¿ Roban is an art historian, theorist, and curator working as a senior research adviser in tenure at the Institute of Art History, Zagreb. Ana Šverko is an architect and architectural historian working as a senior research adviser at the Institute of Art History - Cvito Fiskovi¿ Centre, Split.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
312
Release Date:
2023-12-15
Publication Date:
2023-10-12
Publisher:
Leuven University Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
9462703752
ISBN13:
9789462703759
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
728 g
Height:
156 cm
Width:
234 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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