W4 - art photographers featuring urban landscapes, transport and roads

from:
Cotton Charlotte 2009, The Photograph as Contemporary Art', Thames and Hudson, London.

Dan Holdsworth (p.95) but with more images here - of all the photographers I picked that might have road imagery, Holdsworth was the closest with deserted urban landscapes. Holdsworth maps hybrid spaces that resist separation '...into mutually exclusive poles: rural / urban, wilderness / civilisation, natural / artificial, third world / first world.' (Carlyle, 2001, Guardian).

Naoya Hatakeyama (p.93) - Examines 'relationship between humans and their [city] environment' (Prix Pictet). Ah, not so much transport, but some shots of mine vehicles and machinery - but fantastic water (such as from sewers and storm water drains) and blast images

Bridget Smith (p.86) - Generally, "the construction of fantasy, the architecture of entertainment, environments created principally for the consumption of pleasure" (Frith Street Gallery), this image of Las Vegas Airport in particular..and oasis of entertainment with the pyramids and everything...but also, clearly, a desert.

Ed Burtynsky (p.86) - Features 'nature transformed through industry' with this tyre pile an example of one of his urban mines. Such a beautiful 'unnatural' landscape echoing the earth landscape behind it, with the one green tyre in the centre and the white container at the back pulling my eyes between the two 'natural' and 'unnatural' landscapes. His work is not about transport, but can feature it, such this very formal image, as Container Ports No.18.

Miles Coolidge (p.72) - 'the Central Valley series (1998), the artist reduced panoramic California landscape photographs to thin strips ten inches high and ten feet long' (Guggenheim), probably the series I'm interested in, but not much on-line.

Jean-Marc Bustamante (p.123) For instance, LP VI - very large colour images from Switzerland usully including a road, 'reflections of the horizontality of the water’s surface, the position of the viewer and the relationships between things' (Donald Young Gallery)

Allan Sekula (p.181) the ships, ports, mines and their industry and workers feature heavily. There's a sense discontent, ecology disrrupted and politics of work, but they are always human (Dimendberg, 2005, Bomb).

Martin Smith - landscapes, often urban, with text cut out of them.

'Smith hacks into, scrubs back and cuts-up photographs...returns to photography's historical relevance as a tool for recording personal histories, and arrives at the impossibilitiy of reliving a moment.' (Rees in Smith, 2008, p.10)
See:
Smith Martin 2008, In Response To..., Queensland Cente for Photography, Brisbane,