ABSTRACT
Many landscape sites have strong fronts, dominating landmarks and more interesting places within the larger site. A passive photographic process focuses on these types of places. As a result, the back-of-things, or the around-over-there or that boring place doesn’t get photographed. Creating a predetermined path with regularized photo points is one way to transcend this tendency. This method explores how implementing predetermined ways of navigating a site prevents the photographer/designer from primarily photographing highly legible characteristics. Kevin Lynch’s Image of the City, a foundational example from landscape architecture, articulates this bias toward the legible. The visual effects of this method can vary widely, thus the intentions of the photographer are always at play. This process is both objective and subjective in nature. The use of color or black and white, the choice of focal length and the point of view are all choices the photographer makes. Yet for this method, these choices are made before photographing the site.
