What is it about?
Photomaps are images that depict spaces by stitching together multiple photographs. A popular example is Google Maps' satellite view of the Earth. There has never been a systematic review of this sort of image. This paper sets out the creative possibilities of the form and highlights certain limitations.
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Why is it important?
Photomaps are more common and easier to produce than ever before. They are regularly viewed by a mass audience and are being produced by non-experts on mobile phones. Scholarship has fallen behind practical innovations in this area. This paper goes some way to addressing this.
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My hope is that this article makes photomaps engaging for a broader audience and shows something of what they can do. It was the culmination of a large body of practical work exploring photomaps over many years. It was a pleasure to produce it as a visual essay, a form that seems particularly appropriate for the subject.
Dr Rob Tovey
Coventry University
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This page is a summary of: Photomaps: A Visual Taxonomy, Visual Communication, January 2018, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/1470357217746028.
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