Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Preface and Acknowledgements 7
4. Introduction 9
5. In conversation with Olaf Otto Becker 19
6. Polar Expeditions: A Photographic Landscape of Sameness? 35
7. Memory and the Snapshot: some thoughts on photography, drawing, and writing as inscriptions of Northern landscapes 57
8. Distanced visuality, embodied proximity? Literary and photographic images of Finnish travel landscapes from the premodern journey to the railway era 81
9. Mapping Norway. Knud Knudsen and the discovery of Norway in photography 107
10. Aurora Borealis Recordings: Wilderness Spectacle in “Real Time” 121
11. Ghosting the Castle: the case of (re)landscaping in a Northern place 141
12. Matrix of Movement: Post-industrial Wetlands of the North West 161
13. The North as a fantasy playground: re-evaluating the literary influences in the landscape photography of Raymond Moore 177
14. Rethinking space in the landscapes of Nordic cuisine 197
15. Illustrations 221
16. Biographies of Contributors 227