Photographs of Environmental Phenomena

Gisela Parak

doi:10.14361/9783839430859

Zusammenfassung

Since well before the debates about global warming and climate change, images have played an important part in bringing changes in nature and the environment to the attention of the general public. Moreover, most of these images have historic precursors. Gisela Parak illuminates how the synergy of photography and science gave rise to a class of photographs of environmental phenomena in the history of the United States of America, and how these images supported and instructed the scientific pursuit of knowledge, and were furthermore used as a persuasive means for directing public opinion.

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Bibliographische Angaben

Copyrightjahr: 2015
ISBN-Print: 978-3-8376-3085-5
ISBN-Online: 978-3-8394-3085-9
Verlag: transcript, Bielefeld
Reihe: Image
Band: 79
Sprache: Englisch
Seiten: 256
Produkttyp: Monographie

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FrontmatterSeiten 1 - 4 Download Kapitel (PDF)
Table of ContentsSeiten 5 - 6 Download Kapitel (PDF)
Project "Documerica" - the Record of a Missed Opportunity? Forward Kein Zugriff Seiten 7 - 10
Between Science and an Ecological Mandate - Photographs of Environmental Phenomena. Introduction Kein Zugriff Seiten 11 - 34
Collecting Visual Evidence - Nineteenth-century Landscape Photography and the Emergence of Science Kein Zugriff Seiten 35 - 82
Agricultural Literacy - Visual Empiricism in New Deal Conservation Kein Zugriff Seiten 83 - 136
Depicting Disaster - Environmental Photography under the Nixon Presidency Kein Zugriff Seiten 137 - 216
Conclusions Kein Zugriff Seiten 217 - 226
Abbreviations Kein Zugriff Seiten 227 - 228
Archival Research and Literature Kein Zugriff Seiten 229 - 254
Acknowledgement Kein Zugriff Seiten 255 - 256