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Watching, Waiting: The Photographic Representation of Empty Places
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Watching, Waiting: The Photographic Representation of Empty Places
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Ana Šverko
Sandra Križić Roban
2023
Published by:
Leuven University Press
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First study on empty places in photography and the Covid-19 pandemic.
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.
Contributors: Ruth Baumeister (Aarhus School of Architecture), Isabelle Catucci da Silva (Federal University of Paraná), Stella Fatović-Ferenčić (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Martin Kuhar (Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts), Catlin Langford (Centre for Contemporary Photography), Jessie Martin (University of West London), Stuart Moore (University of the West of England), Luca Nostri (Independent Artist Photographer), Kayla Parker (University of Plymouth), Bec Rengel (University of the West of England), Tihana Rubić (University of Zagreb), Klaudija Sabo (University of Klagenfurt), Anna Schober (University of Klagenfurt), Elke Katharina Wittich (Leibniz University Hannover)
Ebook available in Open Access.
This publication is GPRC-labeled (Guaranteed Peer-Reviewed Content).
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Frontmatter
pp. 1-4
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Frontmatter
Frontmatter
Frontmatter
Table of Contents
p. 5
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Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
p. 7
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Watching, Waiting
Sandra Križić Roban and Ana Šverko
pp. 8-29
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Introduction: Watching, Waiting
Introduction: Watching, Waiting
Introduction: Watching, Waiting
The Politics of Emptiness
Chapter 1. Separation Anxiety: Filming the Nicosia Buffer Zone
Stuart Moore and Kayla Parker
pp. 32-62
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Chapter 1. Separation Anxiety: Filming the Nicosia Buffer Zone
Chapter 1. Separation Anxiety: Filming the Nicosia Buffer Zone
Chapter 1. Separation Anxiety: Filming the Nicosia Buffer Zone
Chapter 2. The Empty Plinth and the Politics of Emptiness
Bec Rengel
pp. 63-86
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Chapter 2. The Empty Plinth and the Politics of Emptiness
Chapter 2. The Empty Plinth and the Politics of Emptiness
Chapter 2. The Empty Plinth and the Politics of Emptiness
Chapter 3. Occupying Empty Places: Political Protest and Solidarity Among Strangers in Times of Social Distancing
Anna Schober
pp. 87-113
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Chapter 3. Occupying Empty Places: Political Protest and Solidarity Among Strangers in Times of Social Distancing
Chapter 3. Occupying Empty Places: Political Protest and Solidarity Among Strangers in Times of Social Distancing
Chapter 3. Occupying Empty Places: Political Protest and Solidarity Among Strangers in Times of Social Distancing
Revisiting Emptiness
Chapter 4. Staging Isolation: Images of Seclusion and Separation
Catlin Langford
pp. 116-143
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Chapter 4. Staging Isolation: Images of Seclusion and Separation
Chapter 4. Staging Isolation: Images of Seclusion and Separation
Chapter 4. Staging Isolation: Images of Seclusion and Separation
Chapter 5. Milovan Gavazzi and Ethnographic Photography: Practices and Policies of Croatian Field Research and Archiving in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Tihana Rubić
pp. 144-166
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Chapter 5. Milovan Gavazzi and Ethnographic Photography: Practices and Policies of Croatian Field Research and Archiving in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 5. Milovan Gavazzi and Ethnographic Photography: Practices and Policies of Croatian Field Research and Archiving in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 5. Milovan Gavazzi and Ethnographic Photography: Practices and Policies of Croatian Field Research and Archiving in the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Chapter 6. Emptiness as a Tool in the Representation of Public Health Monuments in Croatia
Stella Fatović-Ferenčić and Martin Kuhar
pp. 167-191
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Chapter 6. Emptiness as a Tool in the Representation of Public Health Monuments in Croatia
Chapter 6. Emptiness as a Tool in the Representation of Public Health Monuments in Croatia
Chapter 6. Emptiness as a Tool in the Representation of Public Health Monuments in Croatia
Rethinking Emptiness
Chapter 7. Silent Ruins: Traditions, Photographs, and the Perception of the Void
Elke Katharina Wittich
pp. 194-219
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Chapter 7. Silent Ruins: Traditions, Photographs, and the Perception of the Void
Chapter 7. Silent Ruins: Traditions, Photographs, and the Perception of the Void
Chapter 7. Silent Ruins: Traditions, Photographs, and the Perception of the Void
Chapter 8. A Land of Collective Solitude
Isabelle Catucci
pp. 220-240
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Chapter 8. A Land of Collective Solitude
Chapter 8. A Land of Collective Solitude
Chapter 8. A Land of Collective Solitude
The Performance of Emptiness
Chapter 9. The Power of Emptiness: Arne Jacobsen’s National Bank, Copenhagen, 1961–1978
Ruth Baumeister
pp. 242-259
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Chapter 9. The Power of Emptiness: Arne Jacobsen’s National Bank, Copenhagen, 1961–1978
Chapter 9. The Power of Emptiness: Arne Jacobsen’s National Bank, Copenhagen, 1961–1978
Chapter 9. The Power of Emptiness: Arne Jacobsen’s National Bank, Copenhagen, 1961–1978
Chapter 10. Ornament as a Regulatory System: Photographic Representations of Field Hospitals During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Klaudija Sabo
pp. 260-274
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Chapter 10. Ornament as a Regulatory System: Photographic Representations of Field Hospitals During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Chapter 10. Ornament as a Regulatory System: Photographic Representations of Field Hospitals During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Chapter 10. Ornament as a Regulatory System: Photographic Representations of Field Hospitals During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Chapter 11. Deconstructing Understandings of Emptiness: An Examination of Representations of Transitory Space and ‘Non-place’ in Photography
Jessie Martin
pp. 275-303
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Chapter 11. Deconstructing Understandings of Emptiness: An Examination of Representations of Transitory Space and ‘Non-place’ in Photography
Chapter 11. Deconstructing Understandings of Emptiness: An Examination of Representations of Transitory Space and ‘Non-place’ in Photography
Chapter 11. Deconstructing Understandings of Emptiness: An Examination of Representations of Transitory Space and ‘Non-place’ in Photography
A Visual Essay: Documenting Emptiness
Chapter 12. Distance, Proximity
Luca Nostri
pp. 306-319
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Chapter 12. Distance, Proximity
Chapter 12. Distance, Proximity
Chapter 12. Distance, Proximity
About the Contributors
pp. 320-326
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About the Contributors
About the Contributors
About the Contributors
Additional Information
ISBN
9789461665195
Related ISBN(s)
9789461665201, 9789462703759
DOI
10.1353/book.109814
MARC Record
OCLC
1399563075
Launched on MUSE
2025-03-01
Language
Open Access
Yes
Creative Commons
CC-BY-NC-ND
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