Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface and acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction 9
5. Walking and photographing Northern landscapes: a dialogical approach 19
6. Wanderings through the fog: Axel Hütte and the German landscape tradition re-imagined 49
7. “At the limits of reliable information”: Finland’s Arctic borders with Sweden, Norway and Russia 77
8. Landscape photography in the web of life: Olaf Otto Becker’s documentary sublime 97
9. 53 Degrees parallel north 117
10. Vaguely Northern: in between in England 133
11. Landscape, documentary, and Northern England in the 1930s 143
12. Illustrations 169
13. Biographies of contributors 171