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...

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Bibliografski detalji
Daljnji autori: Macdonald, Patricia (Urednik), Hartshorn, Willis (Komentator)
Format: Licensed eBooks
Jezik:engleski
Izdano: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]
Serija:Studies in Photography Ser.
Online pristup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=3304257
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  • 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.