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Title Surveying the anthropocene : environment and photography now / edited by Patricia Macdonald ; with essays by Patricia Macdonald [and thirteen others] ; and commentary by the artist-photographer contributors, and Willis Hartshorn [and ten others].

Publication Info. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (233 pages): illustrations (colour.
text file
Series Studies in photography
Studies in photography.
Contents 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.
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Subject Nature photography.
Nature photography.
Photography in environmental monitoring.
Photography in environmental monitoring.
Environmentalism.
Environmentalism.
nature photography.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Macdonald, Patricia, editor.
Hartshorn, Willis, commentator.
Other Form: Print version: 9781838382254
Print version: 1838382232 9781838382230 (OCoLC)1263023367
ISBN 9781838382254 (electronic book)
1838382259 (electronic book)
1838382232
9781838382230