Exposure & Fields

“Eidetic Operations and New Landscapes” by James Corner

“No matter how objective and descriptive the claims for it might be, imaging always exercises agency, actively unfolding, generating, and actualizing emergent realities.” P. 160

Exposure

“Not only is a collective recognition of land as landscape made possible through exposure to prior images (a phenomenon central to both spectacle and tourist landscapes) but also the ability to intentionally construe and construct designed landscapes is enabled through various forms and activities of imaging.” P.153

|ikˈspō zh ər|

noun/ verb- to expose

• The state of being exposed to contact with something

• an act or instance of being uncovered or unprotected

• experience of something for the first time or for a long duration

• the action of exposing a photographic film to light

• the direction in which a building faces; an outlook

• to uncover something or reveal an image

Designed exposure- sequencing and planning the uncovering and revealing of something

Fields

“We might say that gardens are defined less by formal appearances than through the activities of gardening, just as agricultural fields derive their form from the logistics of farming, and cities from the flows, processes, and performances of urbanization.” P. 159

|fēld|

noun

• open land

• a mass of people, resources, or land

• a piece of land used for a particular purpose, esp. an area marked out for a game or sport

• a large area of land or water completely covered in a particular substance, esp. snow or ice.

• an area rich in a natural product, typically oil or gas : an oil field.

• an area on which a battle is fought : a field of battle.

• archaic a battle : many a bloody field was to be fought.

• a place where a subject of scientific study or artistic representation can be observed in its natural location or context.

• a particular branch of study or sphere of activity or interest

• a space or range within which objects are visible from a particular viewpoint or through a piece of apparatus : field of view

• Computing a part of a record, representing an item of data.

“The scenic landscape tends not only to displace the viewing subject in both space and time but also to displace the objects is contains.”