Photographs of Environmental Phenomena : : Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s-1970s / / Gisela Parak.
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 p...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus eBook-Package 2015 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2015] ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Edition: | 1. Aufl. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Image ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (256 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- Project "Documerica" - the Record of a Missed Opportunity? Forward
- Between Science and an Ecological Mandate - Photographs of Environmental Phenomena. Introduction
- Collecting Visual Evidence - Nineteenth-century Landscape Photography and the Emergence of Science
- Agricultural Literacy - Visual Empiricism in New Deal Conservation
- Depicting Disaster - Environmental Photography under the Nixon Presidency
- Conclusions
- Abbreviations
- Archival Research and Literature
- Acknowledgement