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Photographs of Environmental Phenomena Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s-1970s Gisela Parak
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Parak, Gisela, 1977- <p>Gisela Parak, Braunschweig Photography Museum, Germany</p>, Author.
- Series:
- Image (Transcript (Firm)) ; Volume 79.
- Image
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- USA.
- Environmental History.
- Photography.
- Science History.
- »Documerica«.
- Roy Stryker.
- Rexford Tugwell.
- Gifford Hampshire.
- Timothy O'Sullivan.
- Clarence King.
- John Wesley Powell.
- Cultural History.
- Nature.
- History of Science.
- History.
- Local Subjects:
- USA.
- Environmental History.
- Photography.
- Science History.
- »Documerica«.
- Roy Stryker.
- Rexford Tugwell.
- Gifford Hampshire.
- Timothy O'Sullivan.
- Clarence King.
- John Wesley Powell.
- Cultural History.
- Nature.
- History of Science.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (257 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Other Title:
- Parak, Photographs of Environmental Phenomena Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s-1970s
- Place of Publication:
- Bielefeld transcript Verlag 2015
- Language Note:
- English
- Biography/History:
- Gisela Parak (PD Dr.) is the director of the Brunswick Museum for Photography, Germany, and teaches at the Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart and at Brunswick Technical University. She was a postdoctoral fellow at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, at Washington University, St. Louis, and at the GHI in Washington, D.C. Her work focuses on the history and theory of photography, American cultural history and art history of the 19th and 20th century.
- Summary:
- 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.
- »Among the publication's other great merits are Gisela Parak's continuous ambition to embed all photographic images and historical, political, cultural and medial developments in their (trans)national and global contexts.«
- »This book will be relevant to any assessment of the current media mechanisms that inform collective understanding of the earth and its ecological dynamics.Young scholars interested in this area would do well to follow up on her notes in order to delve further into the resources she cites.«
- Besprochen in:Isis, 6 (2018), Graham Burnett
- »Parak hat in zahlreichen, auch wenig erschlossenen Archiven umfangreich recherchiert und präsentiert eine verknüpfende Auswertung der vielfältigen Dokumente und, in einigen Fällen, überraschende und einleuchtende Neuinterpretationen bekannten Materials.«
- Contents:
- Frontmatter 1 Table of Contents 5 Project "Documerica" - the Record of a Missed Opportunity? Forward 7 Between Science and an Ecological Mandate - Photographs of Environmental Phenomena. Introduction 11 Collecting Visual Evidence - Nineteenth-century Landscape Photography and the Emergence of Science 35 Agricultural Literacy - Visual Empiricism in New Deal Conservation 83 Depicting Disaster - Environmental Photography under the Nixon Presidency 137 Conclusions 217 Abbreviations 227 Archival Research and Literature 229 Acknowledgement 255
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9783839430859
- 3839430852
- OCLC:
- 953884666
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