Open AccessRepresentational Possibilities in Landscape Photography: William Earle Williams and Dawoud Bey
Author(s) -
David Jones
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
tba
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2563-6243
DOI - 10.5206/tba.v3i1.13882
Subject(s) - subjectivity , photography , scholarship , relevance (law) , landscape painting , art , history , art history , visual arts , sociology , law , philosophy , painting , political science , epistemology
Over the course of this essay, the lens-based practices of William Earle Williams and Dawoud Bey become a site of a genre analysis. Both photographers foreground histories of chattel slavery in the United States through the employment of absence in landscape photography. The essay entails a close study of how Williams and Bey position their subjectivity to expand beyond previous conventions in landscape photography and reorient how viewers engage with such work. Through a range of interdisciplinary scholarship, the means of tracing Williams and Bey’s respective expressions highlights the potential of landscape to address sites of historical and cultural relevance.