Photographs of Environmental Phenomena
Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s-1970s
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.
Kapitel-Übersicht
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Frontmatter
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Table of Contents
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Project "Documerica" - the Record of a Missed Opportunity? Forward
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Between Science and an Ecological Mandate - Photographs of Environmental Phenomena. Introduction
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Collecting Visual Evidence - Nineteenth-century Landscape Photography and the Emergence of Science
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Agricultural Literacy - Visual Empiricism in New Deal Conservation
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Depicting Disaster - Environmental Photography under the Nixon Presidency
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Conclusions
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Abbreviations
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Archival Research and Literature
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Acknowledgement
Seiten 255 - 256
4. September 2015, 256 Seiten
ISBN: 978-3-8376-3085-5
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