Abstract

This chapter focuses on a 1914 photograph by Stefano Bricarelli that can be considered a visual representation of the concerns of landscape. It explores the concept of the sublime in terms of the interplay between distance, immediacy, and representation. Before considering the concept of sublimity, the question regarding entry into the scene must first be addressed. The possibility that landscape may only exist because of such an entry plays a vital role in any analysis of the photographic image. This possibility also allows a conception of human presence that is not mere construction but a form of production. While there may be a process in which a form of presence comes into consideration, what is present brings with it a transformational quality. The logic of addition also suggests that human presence creates an original form of distancing.