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Surveying the anthropocene : environment and photography now /
Surveying the Anthropocene collates a range of approaches to image making concerning environmental issues by some of the best artist-photographers working worldwide. The incisive input to environmental questions is gathered together at a pivotal moment in the evolving human relationship with our hom...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2021]
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| Colección: | Studies in Photography Ser.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Section 1: Into the Anthropocene
- Surveying the Anthropocene: Environment and photography now / Patricia Macdonald
- Generation Anthropocene: how humans have altered the planet forever / Robert Macfarlane
- Section 2: 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 / Owen Logan
- 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 / Kate Brown
- Ruin lust/Ruin porn?: What 'ruin porn' tells us about ruins
- and porn / Siobhan Lyons
- Section 3: Climate Change
- 'A cat in hell's chance': why we're losing the battle to keep global warming below 2C / Andrew Simms
- Climate change: ice
- Climate change: flood
- Section 4: 'Wild'/'Unwild'/'Rewild' and Rephotography
- Walk on the wild side: Rewilding, hillwalking & history / George Monbiot and Dan Bailey
- Natural processes; 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
- Section 5: After the Anthropocene
- Imagined future biologies: plastic; jellyfish
- Edenic apocalypse meets gardens against Eden / Natasha Myers and Ayelen Liberona
- Lessons from a pandemic / Jared Diamond
- What coronavirus can teach us about climate change / Leslie Hook
- After the Anthropocene: Seabirds and the oceanic images of J.J. Harrison.