The competition for the cover image
At the end of the issue, the journal publishes all the proposals received for the cover image and thanks the authors who joined the competition ‘The Geography of the Image’. Call for papers – In the current ‘global condition’ in which humanity finds itself, the image has assumed a fundamental role in governing the media […]
The Temporal Geography of the Digital Image, Tempus Fugit?
This research underlines the importance that the consideration of temporality should be given to in contemporary visual studies. The initial hypothesis considers that the connection of a temporal nature between a digital image and its content synchronizes such image with society and its being in the world. The analysis will be based on the study […]
Ubique Sunt Leones
After the fall of the Tower of Babel, the common human language shattered into a multitude of idioms. However, humankind has never abandoned the desire to rebuild the lost unity: through impositions, by hegemonic civilizations (Greek, Latin, Arabic, Spanish, English); using egalitarian artifices (the Langue Matrice of Descartes or the more recent Esperanto); imagining utopian […]
Counter−images
This complex time, lived in isolation between uncertainties and meditations, is also the time of experimentation, searching answers and ideas. The web offers the opportunity to explore numerous information resources and sources of image production, sharing reflections, investigations and projects in which man, space and living are the object of the representations. These are domains […]
An Archeology of Global Images’ Languages: the Picturesque Case
The book by Timothy Brook, Vermeer’s Hat, The Seventeenth Century and the Dawn of the Global World (2009) shows how in that age, a lot of handcrafts – such as hats and porcelain – entered Europe through the massive trading activities of Dutch East India Company. To illustrate this, he conducts an in–depth analysis of […]
Cultural and Geographical Identity in the Japanese Image, between Memory and Creativity
Graphic representation plays an important role in the territorial development of a country. The power of images is widely exploited in all consumer–based societies because it is powerful in producing a manipulation of ideas with respect to places and it helps to attribute senses and meanings to them. Graphic representation based on stereotyped images, symbols […]
‘Infogeography’ of the Complex Image of Places
If a ‘geo–graphy’ exists as a graphic representation of the Earth’s places, can it equally exist to express the representation of its phenomena? Considering the sequence of ‘contemporary places’ as coexistence of highly complex interacting scenarios, the question arises on what methods, what languages and what tools can be valid for possible visual restitution. Although […]
Producing, Reading and Understanding: Geographical Literacy and Representations
The power of images, and more generally of representations, lies not so much in their ability to document reality, but in the power to shape and mould it, a priori and retrospectively. The development and diffusion of technological tools which help to produce representations and their dematerialization, which has exponentially increased the speed and breadth […]
Editorial. The Geography of the Image
In his editorial, Franco Purini reflects on the role of images in the age of globalisation, challenging the idea of a supposed planetary homogenisation. On the contrary, the contemporary world appears to be crossed by new borders, reasserted identities, distinct cultural landscapes and increasingly recognisable visual forms, able to convey the complexity of places and […]