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Photographs of Environmental Phenomena
Gisela Parak
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Description for Photographs of Environmental Phenomena
Paperback. Num Pages: 256 pages, 24 b/w & 5 colour illus. BIC Classification: AJCR; PDX; RNK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 225 x 150. Weight in Grams: 350.
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.
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.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Transcript Verlag Germany
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
, Germany
ISBN
9783837630855
SKU
V9783837630855
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About Gisela Parak
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 ... Read more
Reviews for Photographs of Environmental Phenomena
»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.« Graham Burnett, Isis, 6 (2018) »Among the publication's other great ... Read more