Shot to Death: The Fate of Abandoned Places in the Hands of Artists
Abstract
This essay discusses the use of abandoned places by photographers. I review this subject from a perspective of remembering and forgetting. Giving examples of artists, especially photographer’s works whose subjects are abandoned places in Izmir and Detroit, I interpret photographs of abandoned places in the context of hauntology and ghost-metaphors.References
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[16] S. O’Hagan. (2011) “Detroit in Ruins”, The Guardian website. [online]. Available: http://www.theguardian.com/ artanddesign/2011/jan/02/detroit-ruins-marchand-meffre-photographs-ohagan
[17] S. Sontag. Regarding The Pain of Others, New York: Picador, 2003.
[18] T. Morton. (2009) The Vice website. [online]. Available: http://www.vice.com/read/something-something-something-detroit-994-v16n8
[19] Y. Marchand, R. Meffre. Homepage. [online]. Available: http://www.marchandmeffre.com/detroit/
Published
2015-08-01
How to Cite
TEKIN, Nezaket.
Shot to Death: The Fate of Abandoned Places in the Hands of Artists.
Култура/Culture, [S.l.], n. 9, p. 133-140, aug. 2015.
ISSN 1857-7725.
Available at: <http://journals.cultcenter.net/index.php/culture/article/view/140>. Date accessed: 07 feb. 2023.
Section
English Articles
Keywords
Abandoned places, photography, Izmir, Detroit, hauntology, ghost

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