Mapping with a Car and a Camera: Ralph Bagnold in the Libyan Desert

dc.contributor.authordeCourcy, Elisa
dc.date.accessioned2020-05-06T03:23:56Z
dc.date.issued2019-03
dc.date.updated2019-11-25T08:04:43Z
dc.description.abstractThe view of a track-riven sandy terrain, dotted with the silhouettes of two cars and the remnants of a camp, was taken by British military engineer cum desert explorer, Ralph Bagnold during 1929 (Figure 1). The tread of the tyres arches violently across the fore and mid-ground, cutting through the furrows left in the sand by the wind and training the eye upward toward the horizon. The movement of the eye, in looking, mimics the motion suggested to have occurred immediately prior to exposure. More than this, the photograph is a synergy of the imprinting potential of the car and camera, both mechanized technologies united in their ability to mark out a surface.en_AU
dc.description.sponsorshipThe research for this article was supported by the Australia Research Council Discovery Grant, Heritage in the Limelight (DP160102509).en_AU
dc.format.extent5 pagesen_AU
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen_AU
dc.identifier.issn1751-4517en_AU
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/203820
dc.language.isoen_AUen_AU
dc.publisherTaylor & Francis (Routledge)en_AU
dc.relationhttp://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP160102509en_AU
dc.rights© 2018 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Groupen_AU
dc.sourcePhotography and Cultureen_AU
dc.subjectphotograph, inter-war exploration, Ralph Bagnolden_AU
dc.titleMapping with a Car and a Camera: Ralph Bagnold in the Libyan Deserten_AU
dc.typeJournal articleen_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.issue1en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage112en_AU
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage109en_AU
local.contributor.affiliationdeCourcy, Elisa, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National Universityen_AU
local.contributor.authoremailElisa.DeCourcy@anu.edu.auen_AU
local.contributor.authoruiddeCourcy, Elisa, u1031234en_AU
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIESen_AU
local.identifier.absfor190104 - Visual Culturesen_AU
local.identifier.absfor190102 - Art Historyen_AU
local.identifier.ariespublicationu6003913xPUB9en_AU
local.identifier.citationvolume12en_AU
local.identifier.doi10.1080/17514517.2018.1501197en_AU
local.identifier.essn1751-4525en_AU
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-85053907785
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByu6003913en_AU
local.publisher.urlhttps://www.routledge.com/en_AU
local.type.statusPublished Versionen_AU

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