Photographs of Environmental Phenomena : Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s-1970s /
Parak, Gisela
Photographs of Environmental Phenomena : Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s-1970s / Gisela Parak. - 1. Aufl. - 1 online resource (256 p.) - Image ; 79 .
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Project "Documerica" — the Record of a Missed Opportunity? Forward -- Between Science and an Ecological Mandate — Photographs of Environmental Phenomena. Introduction -- Collecting Visual Evidence — Nineteenth-century Landscape Photography and the Emergence of Science -- Agricultural Literacy — Visual Empiricism in New Deal Conservation -- Depicting Disaster — Environmental Photography under the Nixon Presidency -- Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- Archival Research and Literature -- Acknowledgement
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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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783837630855 9783839430859
10.1515/9783839430859 doi
Documentary photography--History--United States--19th century.
Documentary photography--History--United States--20th century.
Documentary photography--United States--19th century.
Documentary photography--United States--20th century.
Photography in environmental monitoring--United States.
Clarence King.
Cultural History.
Environmental History.
Gifford Hampshire.
History of Science.
History.
John Wesley Powell.
Nature.
Photography.
Rexford Tugwell.
Roy Stryker.
Science History.
Timothy O'Sullivan.
»Documerica«.
HISTORY / General.
Clarence King. Cultural History. Environmental History. Gifford Hampshire. History of Science. History. John Wesley Powell. Nature. Photography. Rexford Tugwell. Roy Stryker. Science History. Timothy O'Sullivan. »Documerica«.
TR820.5 / .P37 2015
779.092
Photographs of Environmental Phenomena : Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s-1970s / Gisela Parak. - 1. Aufl. - 1 online resource (256 p.) - Image ; 79 .
Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Project "Documerica" — the Record of a Missed Opportunity? Forward -- Between Science and an Ecological Mandate — Photographs of Environmental Phenomena. Introduction -- Collecting Visual Evidence — Nineteenth-century Landscape Photography and the Emergence of Science -- Agricultural Literacy — Visual Empiricism in New Deal Conservation -- Depicting Disaster — Environmental Photography under the Nixon Presidency -- Conclusions -- Abbreviations -- Archival Research and Literature -- Acknowledgement
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
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.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9783837630855 9783839430859
10.1515/9783839430859 doi
Documentary photography--History--United States--19th century.
Documentary photography--History--United States--20th century.
Documentary photography--United States--19th century.
Documentary photography--United States--20th century.
Photography in environmental monitoring--United States.
Clarence King.
Cultural History.
Environmental History.
Gifford Hampshire.
History of Science.
History.
John Wesley Powell.
Nature.
Photography.
Rexford Tugwell.
Roy Stryker.
Science History.
Timothy O'Sullivan.
»Documerica«.
HISTORY / General.
Clarence King. Cultural History. Environmental History. Gifford Hampshire. History of Science. History. John Wesley Powell. Nature. Photography. Rexford Tugwell. Roy Stryker. Science History. Timothy O'Sullivan. »Documerica«.
TR820.5 / .P37 2015
779.092