Ansel’s Curse

if you make postcards, why not make a postcard stand.

The traveller’s lodge — where we sell our overflow of apples and almonds. America’s basic belief in a special land granted to them built the myth of the west.

Ansel’s Acolytes study is limited to the first three books. Leaving them with less than enough to locate a photograph, nor position themself in a meaningful history, even though they proudly place their dark tones into the deeps of the skill.

A) ..”the origins of the park do not lie in the arrest of time.. they lie in the enclosure of aristocratic hunting grounds, territories set apart from settlement and cultivation for the explicit purpose of the chase. — Cosgrove

B)” In Virgil, to whose poetry it has conventionally been traced, Arcadia is not an imaginative or desired place of stasis or of achieved harmony between humans and the natural world; it is a moment within a complex process of human evolution whose driving forces are sexual love and violent death.”

Origins, initial purposes become diluted in a rush to become a member of some groups. Membership may mean forgetting the questions of purpose, since they can take the group into discord. Membership in a group often means discussions take on a “founder” bias. If they came from a technical background (many do) then the forum tends toward such discussions. Some forms of discussion are suspect and suspended.

For this reason, much is left behind. Dropped from their canon. He leads you where he went.


Now, the hobby talks lenses and light — all about the light. All the while they talk about their hike, camera, lens and metering for, oh right, the light. What zone is this. What location is that.

In the move from studio to landscape we gain access to different atmosphere. With tubes of paint and lightweight easels we enlarged the scope of painting, of art in the world. With every change of materials a change of artist follows. The hobby, the dedicated crafter often remain to hold down their past. This is that leap of text seen by reviewing recent pasts.

Created by Act of Congress on August 25, 1916, its stated goal was: “to conserve the scenery and the natural and historic objects and the wild life [sic] and to provide for the enjoyment of the same in such manner and by such means as will leave them unimpaired for the enjoyment of future generations.”

Click to access hg-v35-2007.pdf


snobby hobby hobsnobb takeeout old trails make you a tourist

Throughout the 1920s, Union Pacific’s entire Photographic Division was staffed by three men—Eyre Powell, Jack Bristol and Vincent H. Hunter. There was no separation of labor among Union Pacific photographers in those days—all three took photos, developed film, wrote articles for the monthly “Union Pacific Magazine” and even created movies on 16mm. The trio was joined at the end of the decade by photographer William A. Coons. … Gilbert Stanley Underwood was a famous architect who designed buildings for Union Pacific Railroad and the national parks. he used the trees and stones he found in the local area so that the lodge would match the environment

The history of landscape study and, more broadly, place and regional studies, illustrates the convergences with some of the histories here, both across discipline and nation.
Jackson's published works include:
* Landscapes: Selected Writings of J. B. Jackson (1970)
* American Space: The Centennial Years, 1865–1876 (1972)
* The Interpretation of Ordinary Landscapes: Geographical Essays edited with D. W. Meinig (1979)
* The Necessity for Ruins and Other Topics (1980)
* Discovering the Vernacular Landscape (1984)
* A Sense of Place, a Sense of Time (1994)
* Landscape in Sight: Looking at America (1997)

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Landscape is a noun. First. It designates the surface of the earth people shaped and shape deliberately for permanent purposes. Oceans, polar ice, glaciers, rocky islets, and—even today—parts of steppes, deserts, tropical forest, and similar places seemingly untouched (or at least uninhabited, perhaps seldom if ever transited) are properly wilderness. A soda can tossed from an airplane mars the polar ice just as it mars the
--Stilgoe 

Cosgrove: Denis Edmund Cosgrove (3 May 1948, in Liverpool – 21 March 2008. Cosgrove’s central mission was to illuminate the dynamic interplay between the world’s diverse material landscapes and equally diverse modes of imagining and exploring them. That overarching programme began with his 1976 doctoral dissertation on the Palladian townscape in Vicenza and the Veneto. “

  • Social formation and symbolic landscape  1984
  • The iconography of Landscape. 1988
  • Geography & Vision. 2008

“A striking sociological feature of any visit to an American national park or forest, and even more to a designated wilderness area, is how radically unrepresentative of the vibrant social and ethnic mix found in America’s cities are their visitor’s”

https://www.josephbellows.com/artists/roger-minick/featured-works?view=slider#20

the Sublime:

Edmund Burke’s 1757: sublime is related to human passions:

“Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the idea of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, or is conversant about terrible objects, or operates in a manner analogous to terror, is a source of the sublime, that is, it is productive of the strongest emotions which the mind is capable of feeling.” (from Appleton, 1975, p 28)