Geographical imagination of landscapes: analysis of the book of photographs Slovenian landscapes

The article focuses on the geographical imagination of landscapes, depicted in the photographs. The research stems from the assumption that photographs play an important role in shaping and preserving individual and collective imagination of a landscape and that geography as a science is closely con...

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Published inActa geographica Slovenica : Geografski zbornik Vol. 55; no. 1; p. 99–125
Main Authors Urbanc, Mimi, Gašperič, Primož, Kozina, Jani
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published ZRC SAZU, Založba ZRC 06.07.2015
Subjects
geography
landscape imagination
landscapes
slovenia
statistics
surface
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Summary:The article focuses on the geographical imagination of landscapes, depicted in the photographs. The research stems from the assumption that photographs play an important role in shaping and preserving individual and collective imagination of a landscape and that geography as a science is closely connected to visual representations of the world. The empirical part of the research entails selecting and defining/coding the photographs from the book Slovenian Landscapes by Dušan Ogrin and their analysis through statistical methods. The purpose of the article is to demonstrate what kind of image of the landscape this book creates. The goal is to design/formulate a methodology for photograph interpretation, especially to select the indicators and their categories as well as the criteria for a quantitative photograph evaluation. Using these methods, the appearance of the landscapes is analysed according to the individual indicators, placing special emphasis on surface form as the most important landscape element.
ISSN:1581-6613
1581-8314
DOI:10.3986/AGS.836