From Light to Dark: Daylight, Illumination, and Gloom

Description

Despite the shared human experience in which spaces appear radically different depending on time, season, and weather, social science investigation on the subject is meager. From Light to Dark fills this gap, focusing on our interaction with daylight, illumination, and darkness and analyzing a vast array of artistic interventions, diverse spaces, and lighting technologies to explore these most basic human experiences.

Tim Edensor teaches cultural geography at Manchester Metropolitan University (UK). He is the author of Tourists at the Taj; National Identity, Popular Culture, and Everyday Life; and Industrial Ruins: Space, Aesthetics, and Materiality.

"Illumination is one of the aspects of life that has become so obvious we have stopped noticing it. In this innovative and illuminating book, Tim Edensor provides an elegant and necessary account of light and dark, their role in the production of everyday life, the stories we tell about them, and the emotions they engender. He has performed a key task of any critical thinker-taking the obvious and making it visible again."-Tim Cresswell, Trinity College "The wealth of sources and documents one finds in From Light to Dark is one of the great merits of the book."-Leonardo "With many such insights and many more examples of the ways in which we may reframe the scholarship of modern perception and sensory experience, From Light to Dark certainly deserve[s] further attention."-Journal of Design History