Capturing Medieval London: Framing and Perspective
This paper will provide an introduction to a wider project that uncovers the remaining material fragments of medieval London through the practice of contemporary photography, seeking to expose the connections between the Middle Ages, and Chaucer’s time especially, and ours now through the viewing perspective of the photographer and through photographic documentation. Susan Sontag, in her seminal text On Photography, writes that the act of photography ’transforms the present into the past and the past into pastness’. It is through this idea of pastness that I, through my own photography, attempt to capture the remains, the ruins, and the landmarks of medieval London - the visible and invisible. Connecting Sontag’s idea of the 'photo as artefact' with the artefacts of our medieval surroundings, this project seeks to offer new understandings of how medieval London exists in and through places that are layered temporally - and it argues that the photograph reveals how these places are framed in the contemporary.
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