Photographs of Environmental Phenomena: Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s-1970s (2016)
Parak, Gisela (Author)
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Physical Details: 256 pages
Language: English
Well before today's debates on global warming and climate change, photographic images have played an important role in educating the general public about the wonders of nature and the destruction of the global environment. Most now-iconic images have historical precursors. Gisela Parak illuminates how the interrelationship of photography and science gave rise to a genre of photographs of environmental phenomena. She emphasizes the power of these images to support and instruct the scientific pursuit of knowledge, as well as their potency as a means of persuading and shaping public opinion.
...MoreReview Susanne Leikam (2016) Review of "Photographs of Environmental Phenomena: Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s-1970s". Icon: Journal of the International Committee for the History of Technology (pp. 154-157).
Review D. Graham Burnett (2018) Review of "Photographs of Environmental Phenomena: Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s-1970s". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (pp. 414-415).
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