Lapland Dislocated: Jorma Puranen's Photography and Anthropology
Abstract The photographic art of Jorma Puranen (1951–) depicts Lapland through the intersection of image and text. Over the course of his career, Puranen's publications have emerged as a consequence of his photographic projects. For instance, Imaginary Homecoming records a haunting trip to the...
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crunivillinoispr:10.5406/28315081.16.2.09 2023-05-15T18:11:13+02:00 Lapland Dislocated: Jorma Puranen's Photography and Anthropology Markowska, Martyna 2013 http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/28315081.16.2.09 https://scholarlypublishingcollective.org/uip/jfs/article-pdf/16/2/130/1609814/130markowska.pdf en eng University of Illinois Press Journal of Finnish Studies volume 16, issue 2, page 130-140 ISSN 1206-6516 2831-5081 journal-article 2013 crunivillinoispr https://doi.org/10.5406/28315081.16.2.09 2022-11-20T15:03:17Z Abstract The photographic art of Jorma Puranen (1951–) depicts Lapland through the intersection of image and text. Over the course of his career, Puranen's publications have emerged as a consequence of his photographic projects. For instance, Imaginary Homecoming records a haunting trip to the indigenous past of Lapland and the Sami people, and has become one of Puranen's most recognized works. Lapland, as a geographical place, can be considered “dislocated” because of its specific lingual and ethnographic character. Spread across the territories of four nations without a single common language, Lapland remains one of the most unknown and scarcely described regions in the world. Puranen, working in the Nordic photographic tradition, has created several projects in which he analyzes the roots of Sami ethnicity. Moreover, the displacement of Lapland and the Sami people reflects other types of displacement present in Puranen's art. One type is the dislocation of images into the landscape, and another type, the displacement of images into text. This article examines these metaphors along with the artistic strategies applied by the artist. Three dichotomies are present in Puranen's albums and necessary to understand his project: art versus anthropology, nature versus cultural heritage, and photographs versus text. These three distinctions provide the starting point for this article, and, further, they provide theoretical framework for the examination. Article in Journal/Newspaper sami sami Lapland UI Press - University of Illinois Press (via Crossref) Journal of Finnish Studies 16 2 130 140 |
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Abstract The photographic art of Jorma Puranen (1951–) depicts Lapland through the intersection of image and text. Over the course of his career, Puranen's publications have emerged as a consequence of his photographic projects. For instance, Imaginary Homecoming records a haunting trip to the indigenous past of Lapland and the Sami people, and has become one of Puranen's most recognized works. Lapland, as a geographical place, can be considered “dislocated” because of its specific lingual and ethnographic character. Spread across the territories of four nations without a single common language, Lapland remains one of the most unknown and scarcely described regions in the world. Puranen, working in the Nordic photographic tradition, has created several projects in which he analyzes the roots of Sami ethnicity. Moreover, the displacement of Lapland and the Sami people reflects other types of displacement present in Puranen's art. One type is the dislocation of images into the landscape, and another type, the displacement of images into text. This article examines these metaphors along with the artistic strategies applied by the artist. Three dichotomies are present in Puranen's albums and necessary to understand his project: art versus anthropology, nature versus cultural heritage, and photographs versus text. These three distinctions provide the starting point for this article, and, further, they provide theoretical framework for the examination. |
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