Landscape Depiction and Perception: A Transactional Approach

Abstract

Abstract A conceptual framework that centers upon the relations between landscapes, informational media, and landscape perception is proposed. The framework integrates the transactional approach to landscape perception with a model of the character of media depictions and centers upon transactions with landscapes through direct experience and upon transactions with landscapes through the filter of the images depicted by the media. The example of the motion picture is stressed as a popular medium, although the framework is capable of accommodating all informational media.