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Riitta Päiväläinen
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Imaginary Meetings
Finnish photographer Riitta P iv l inen's work could be defined as the emotional archaeology of the ordinary. Using old clothes she finds in second-hand shops and flea markets, P iv l inen creates landscapes and photographs them. For P iv l inen, the clothes are vestiges of human beings, retaining traces of the history of the person who wore them long after being discarded.The garments represent both the presence and the absence of their former owners.
Photography, Curation, Criticism
This unique collection brings together the work of photography writer, curator, and lecturer, Liz Wells, reflecting on key themes of landscape, place, nationhood, and environmental concerns. A newly written introductory chapter contextualizes the collection. This is followed by an ‘in conversation’ with Martha Langford, Concordia University, Montreal, that brings together two leading figures in the field to respond to Wells’ thought and the themes that emerge in her writings. The essays included in this anthology draw on work from a variety of sources including artists’ photobooks, exhibition catalogues, magazines, academic books, and journals. Seventeen previously published articles...
Land Matters
In this major work on landscape photography, extensively illustrated in colour and black & white, Liz Wells is concerned with the ways in which photographers engage with issues about land, its representation and idealisation. She demonstrates how the visual interpretation of land as landscape reflects and reinforces contemporary political, social and environmental attitudes. She also asks what is at stake in landscape photography now through placing critical appraisal of key examples of work by photographers working in, for example, the USA, in Europe, Scandinavia and Baltic areas, within broader art historical and political concerns. This illuminating book will interest readers in photography and media, geography, art history and travel, as well as those concerned with environmental issues.
Gender-Based Violence in Arts and Culture
This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of the pervasive issue of gender-based violence (GBV) within the realms of art and cultural production. This collection of essays delves into both the overt and subtle forms of GBV. It spans sexual harassment, assault, and the everyday sexism ingrained in creative workplaces and art schools, in both professional and private dimensions. The book covers a wide array of artistic sectors—opera, visual arts, music, and theatre—across diverse global contexts, from Europe to Asia and North America. By incorporating feminist and sociological theories, the essays not only examine the structural power dynamics that perpetuate GBV but also highlight eff...
Contemporary
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Harper's
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Riitta Paivalainen
Helsinki School photographer Riitta Paivalainen's pictures inquire about presence, absence and personhood by looking at abandoned garments that show the signs of passing time in faded colors and torn fabric, and seem to show some of the history of the person who wore them. Paivalainen, born in 1969 in Finland, places her cloth subjects in Finnish or English landscapes in order to cast them in a kind of performance; she often soaks them in water and puts them outside in winter to freeze stiff, seeming in their solidity to embody an absent wearer. The intimacy with which these garments have been known, the swiftness with which they have become scrap when cast off, and the three-dimensional sculptural qualities she imbues them with evoke related connections between nature, time and the human body.
