The figure in the landscape: An archaeology of the photographic image

The Figure in the Landscape is an archaeology of modernity’s manuals of photography and the images produced by the photographers who read them. These texts demonstrate the formation of a subject and a system for the arrangement of knowledges particular to modernity. They reveal a subject who works to produce self and "landscape" by the manipulation of a cross-reference system. Photography is this system. The thesis argues that photography creates a space in which self and world are continually reproduced in a dynamic which actuates criticism and change