This document discusses different types and contexts of landscape. It begins by defining typical rural landscape paintings and photographs including fields, trees and plants. It then expands the definition of landscape to include cityscapes and views within towns, as evidenced by paintings of London and Venice. The document further broadens the meaning of landscape beyond the natural or built environment, suggesting it can have an even wider context through the photographic works of various artists depicting both urban and natural scenes.

1. Landscape

2. 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

3. Fay Godwin

4. Fay Godwin

5. Ansel Adams

6. Ansel Adams

7. Charlie Waite

8. Charlie Waite

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

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

11. Or these Victorian paintings
of twilight city life

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

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

14. Beate Gutschow

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

23. Edward Weston

24. Edward Weston

25. Allan I Teger

26. Allan I Teger

27. Carl Warner

28. Carl Warner