Landscape was the principal art form in the nineteenth century, it had associations with Romanticism especially the poetry of Wordsworth. The nineteenth Century was also when photography was invented and landscape because it was static and because early film was slow was deemed an excellent and fit subject for the then infant art form. Below are a range of mostly nineteenth century landscape pictures

What is Landscape photography? or even Landscape? Click on moody trees below for Wim Van Helzen’s take on this question. Visit the rest of his site.....good stuff

Basically that Landscape stuff is out there.. and it does not have to be pretty, majestic, awesome or any of those conventional terms we use to describe it. However thanks to the traditions of Art, Photography and Film we are very influenced by these modes of thinking. The flash gallery below is clearly influenced by a range of visual antecedents especially film