Surveying the Anthropocene : : Environment and Photography Now / / ed. by Patricia Macdonald.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE Architecture and Design 2021
• MitwirkendeR: Bailey, Dan,; Barker, Mandy,; Bezzola, Tobia,; Boyd, Alex,; Bridges, Marilyn,; Brown, Kate,; Burtynsky, Edward,; Cortis, Jojakim,; Dalziel,,; Derges, Susan,; Diamond, Jared,; Evans, Terry,; Hamilton, Alexander,; Hook, Leslie,; Lebas, Chrystel,; Liberona, Ayelen,; Lieber, Timo,; Logan, Owen,; Lyons, Siobhan,; Macdonald, Angus,; Macdonald, Patricia,; Macfarlane, Robert,; McMaster, Meryl,; Mendel, Gideon,; Monbiot, George,; Myers, Natasha,; Nicolson, Adam,; Scullion,,; Simms, Andrew,; Sonderegger, Adrian,; Struth, Thomas,
• HerausgeberIn: Macdonald, Patricia ,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Series: Studies in Photography
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.) :; 260 colour illustrations 260 colour illustrations

A thought-provoking combination of visually powerful imagery and commentIncludes 260 stunning photographs by more than 50 international contributorsKeynote essay by Patricia Macdonald Features an interview with Dan Bailey and George Monbiot Includes essays by Robert Macfarlane, Owen Logan, Kate Brown, Siobhan Lyons, Andrew Simms, Natasha Myers, Ayelen Liberona, Jared Diamond, Leslie Hook, Adam Nicolson Surveying the Anthropocene presents a range of approaches to image-making concerning the environment by some of the best artist-photographers working worldwide, alongside texts by some of the most illuminating writers on environmental questions, at a pivotal moment in the human relationship with the planet.Photographic approaches to environmental imagery have altered fundamentally in recent decades, largely as a result of increasing socio-ecological awareness. This insightful international survey, with a strong representation from Scotland, considers the varied range of current working practices of a representative selection of artist-photographers, both renowned and emerging, whose image-making explores human-caused environmental change. It concentrates particularly on work which relates to the types of impact, on climate and the web of life, that are sufficiently significant and globally widespread to appear in the future record of the rocks as a new geological epoch – the Anthropocene. The concept of the Anthropocene has engaged the attention and imagination of a wide range of commentators from very different backgrounds and walks of life. It therefore provides an excellent context in which to discuss, in an open and cross-disciplinary way, the range of responses of artist-photographers and cultural writers to our present global situation of multiple, interconnected environmental and social crises – and the options for human ingenuity in addressing these.Contributing photographers Jack Aeby, Antoine d’Agata, Benoit Aquin, Mandy Barker, Olaf Otto Becker, Daniel Beltrá, Alex Boyd, Marilyn Bridges, Alicia Bruce, David Buckland, Edward Burtynsky, Anne Campbell, Thomas Joshua Cooper, Cortis & Sonderegger, Dalziel + Scullion, Pedro David de Oliveira Castello Branco, Bryan Debus, Susan Derges, Terry Evans, Tim Flach, Hamish Fulton, Sophie Gerrard, Lorne Gill, Emmet Gowin, Alexander Hamilton, J.J. Harrison, Louis Helbig, Zig Jackson/Rising Buffalo, Chris Jordan, Aleksandr Kupny, Chrystel Lebas, Ayelen Liberona, Timo Lieber, Owen Logan, Patricia & Angus Macdonald, Pradip Malde, Katie Blair Matthews, Meryl McMaster, Gideon Mendel, Richard Misrach, Fabrice Monteiro, Simon Norfolk, Susanne Ramsenthaler, Paul Souders, Jamey Stillings, Thomas Struth, Timm Suess, Klaus Thymann, Chris Wainwright, Greg White, Pinar YoldasScientists and photographers, some unnamed, from: Federal government of the United States; United States Department of Energy;, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, USA: Hannah A. Bullock; Azaibi Tamin;, NASA: including Jeff Schmalz (MODIS)Contributing writersDan Bailey, Tobia Bezzola, Barbara Bloemink, Kate Brown, Jared Diamond, William A. Ewing, Jared Farmer, Willis E. Hartshorn, Leslie Hook, Siobhan Lyons, Robert Macfarlane, Bill McKibben, George Monbiot, Pete Moore, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Natasha Myers, Adam Nicolson, Andrew Simms

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Foreword -- Contents -- Into the Anthropocene -- Surveying the Anthropocene: Environment and photography now -- Generation Anthropocene: How humans have altered the planet for ever -- Anthroposcenes -- Human marks -- Marked land -- Habitat destruction: the ecological crisis -- Extraction: minerals and carbon: oil -- Pollution: carbon: particulates and air quality; marine plastic; ingested plastic -- Environmental destruction, political power, and self-promotion in the arts -- Environmental justice: resources; confrontation of cultures -- Environmental consciousness: between worlds and times; contemplating global crisis -- Nuclear: ‘stagings’ and photo/performance works -- Chernobyl revisited: Marie Curie’s fingerprint: Nuclear spelunking in the Chernobyl Zone: the images of Aleksandr Kupny -- Ruin lust/Ruin porn?: What ‘ruin porn’ tells us about ruins – and porn -- Climate Change -- ‘A cat in hell’s chance’: why we’re losing the battle to keep global warming below 2°C -- Climate change: Ice -- Climate change: Flood -- ‘Wild’/’Unwild’/’Rewild’ and Rephotography -- Walk on the wild side: Rewilding, hillwalking and history -- Natural process; Wildness; ‘Wild land’ -- Not so wild? – human cultural traces -- Rephotography: an ecologist’s archive; habitat destruction; natural regeneration and rewilding -- Survival/Extinction: survivor species; vulnerable species; endangered species -- After the Anthropocene -- Imagined future biologies: plastic; jellyfish -- Edenic apocalypse meets gardens against Eden -- Lessons from a pandemic -- What coronavirus can teach us about climate change -- After the Anthropocene: Seabirds and the oceanic images of J.J. Harrison -- Contributors