Martin Hogue

Martin Hogue

Martin Hogue is an associate professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at Cornell University. He is the author of Thirtyfour Campgrounds (MIT Press, 2016) and Making Camp: A Visual History of Camping’s Most Essential Items and Activities (Princeton Architectural Press, 2023).

Trained as an architect and landscape architect and working primarily with analytical drawings as a mode of inquiry, his research explores the notion of site as a cultural construction — specifically, the mechanisms by which locations become invested with the unique potential to acquire the designation of "site".

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With our 21st century attentions challenged by endless streams of information on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, as well as blockbuster films supercharged by quick cuts and loads of special effects, Roundhay Garden Scene is improbably well suited for our age: who really has the time to spend more than 1 or 2 seconds on any one piece of visual content?2

Andy Warhol’s 1964 film Empire, an 8-hour long, black-and-white movie featuring a single shot of New York City’s Empire State Building, offers a useful counterpoint.

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