Photography, railways and landscape in Transylvania, Romania : case studies in digital humanities
Autor
Purcar, Cristina
Institución
Resumen
‘An idea, not a thing,’ landscape is the cultural perception of the physical environ-
ment, ‘created by our minds and emotions’ (Clark et al. 2003: 3). The environment
as physical place and the landscape as culturally determined perception and
representation of the physical place, therefore, form a complex unity. Among the
different representations of the environment (or landscape-construction means),
cartography and statistics are allegedly more objective, while photography,
painting, and literature provide rather subjective readings. Through mapping,
contemporary geo-positioned data-management tools allow for a multi-layered
relatedness between these two components of landscape.