Chapter 4: Landscape in Photography

Landscape in photography is usually seen and beautiful and valuable. Photography has a notion of being "picturesque" as the book calls it and that means that it is "timeless" and nothing else can be like it. A landscape photograph from back in the 1800s probably looks a lot different if the same photograph from the same angle would be taken today. A man named Fenton, takes photographs that are relaxing to the viewer. There is not work shown in any of his photographs and everyone looks easy going and happy. He takes more photographs of what we wish the world was like all the time. I really like the photograph on page 59 of the wagon and horses and O'Sullivan's footprints in the desert sand leading up to where he is taking the photograph. The desert is something that will not only change in a few years, but in a few minutes or even seconds with wind changing the footprints into flat, level sand. In the photograph of the "Grand Canyon of the Colorado" is cool because they use a lot of cloud space to highlight the beauty and the bigness of the canyon.