Urban landscape -_introduction[1]

Landscape

When we think of landscape we probably first think of paintings or photography that includes fields, trees, plants and so on … what we might call rural or countryside images

17th century Landscape paintings by Claude Lorrain

Fay Godwin

Fay Godwin

Ansel Adams

Ansel Adams

Charlie Waite

Charlie Waite

But landscape in its wider context or meaning can include views within towns and cities …

Such as these picturesque views of London and Venice by Canaletto (1697-1768)

Or these Victorian paintings of twilight city life

This photograph of London from around 1900 is a type of landscape …. what we might call a ‘cityscape’ or ‘urban landscape’.

Beate Gutschow is a contemporary photographer producing images of our modern urban landscape

Beate Gutschow

But landscape can have an even wider context or meaning than the natural or build environment …

Edward Weston

Edward Weston

Allan I Teger

Allan I Teger

Carl Warner

Carl Warner