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May 9, 2008
I used my recent holiday in the South Island of NZ to continue my exploration of taking photography of the landscape from within a car or van. After all, we spent a lot of time traveling in the Britz Van, and we mostly viewed the South Island landscape we were traveling through from the van windows:
Gary Sauer-Thompson, on the road to Milford Sound, Fiordland National Park, 2008
The international tourist holiday is structured around spending a lot of time driving from one iconic site to another, with quick stops at various scenes or views on the way. Most photography is taken in and around the iconic sites, such as Milford Sound or the Franz Josef Glacier.
The car interior is a control center of sorts, a center of emotional and social activity that frames a particular view of the world outside, and which occasionally offers the outsider glimpses within. Meaningful moments and substantial portions of our lives take place in cars especially when a tourist . We frame the landscape. from the perspective of our experience of being inside a car looking outside.
This way of working was explored by Lee Friedlander, with respect to the urbanscape.
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You caught the contrast well in that picture. V. nice.