Composite Landscapes

Photomontage and Landscape Architecture. Edited by Charles Waldheim and Andrea Hansen. In conjunction with the exhibition at Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston (Massachusetts), June 27 - September 2, 2013. With contributions by James S. Ackerman, James Corner, Stephen Daniels, Anette Freytag, Andrea Hansen, Karen M'Closkey, and Charles Waldheim. Graphic design by Gabriele Sabolewski.

"Composite Landscapes" examines one of landscape architecture's most recognizable representational forms, the montage view. The volume gathers work from a select group of influential contemporary artists and a dozen of the world's leading landscape architects. These composite views reveal practices of photomontage depicting the conceptual, experiential and temporal dimensions of landscape. "Composite Landscapes" illustrates the analogue origins of a method now rendered ubiquitous through digital means. In revisiting the composite landscape view as a cultural form, this book illuminates the contemporary status of the photographically constructed image for the design disciplines and beyond. 215 Seiten mit 138 Abb., Großformat, gebunden (Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum/Hatje Cantz 2014)