Getting Lost: Photographs from Jonathan Johnson's Low Season and Green Country. Issue 4 (2nd October 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Harnetty, Brian
• Is Part Of: Rethinking Marxism. Volume 30:Issue 4(2018)
• Page Start: 599
• Page End: 601
• Publication Date: 2018-10-02
• Subjects: Costa Rica -- Photography -- Thailand -- Unstructured Time -- Walking Artist; Communism -- Periodicals; Periodicals; 335.4305
• DOI: 10.1080/08935696.2018.1552050
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0893-5696

Abstract

Abstract : This essay explores Jonathan Johnson's recent photographic works in Thailand and Costa Rica, where he uses methods of walking and getting lost to critically address productivism and the speed and consumption of digital culture. Richly contextual, the images explore themes of urban and rural landscapes, absence and presence, and in-betweenness. Throughout, Johnson draws from his experiences of moving between cultures, places, and his Thai and American heritage.