TY - BOOK ID - 461180 TI - Picturesque AU - Kempenaers, Jan AU - De Meyer, Dirk AU - A4A PY - 2012 SN - 9789077459744 PB - Amsterdam Antwerp Roma publications A4A DB - UniCat KW - Photography KW - Fotografie [Landschappen] KW - Landscape photography KW - Landschapsfotografie KW - Paysages [Photographie de ] KW - Paysages--Photographie KW - Photographie de paysages KW - Photography [Landscapes] KW - Kempenaers, Jan KW - 77.092.07 KW - Fotografen ; 2006-2011 ; Jan Kempenaers KW - Documentaire fotografie KW - Belgische kunstenaars KW - Artistiek onderzoek KW - Thema's in de fotografie ; landschappen KW - Fotografen A - Z KW - fotografie KW - landschapsfotografie KW - documentaire fotografie KW - Belgiƫ KW - eenentwintigste eeuw KW - Kempenaers Jan KW - 77.071 KEMPENAERS UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:461180 AB - Book with 45 landscapes and architecture photographs by Kempenaers. This book, together with his previous book Spomenik (2010) present the results of Kempenaers' practice based research on 'contemporary picturesque'. Dirk De Meyer, quoted from this book: "Yet, even when gratifying due to their composition and "their living tints and endless varieties", Kempenaers' photographs of landscapes altered by man forestall the nostalgia that has, over time, become typical for the picturesque. They force the viewer to remain in the present and think about its conditions and its future, and about the forces threatening our environment. Using Gilpin's topoi of the picturesque - which, by now, are themselves 'classical' - Kempenaers' images confront us with the picturesque's slightly disconcerting aspects. As one visitor of the 1975 New Topographics exhibition at the George Eastman House observed, the photographs on display were saying "This is it, kid; take it for its beauty and its ugliness."" ER -