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Photographs of Environmental Phenomena: Scientific Images in the Wake of Environmental Awareness, USA 1860s-1970s (2016)

Parak, Gisela (Author)

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Publication date: 2016
Language: English

ISBN: 9783837630855

Publication Date: 2016
Physical Details: 256 pages

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Environment Environmentalism Visual representation; visual communication Photography 19th century 20th century United States

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.

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Review 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). unapi

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). unapi

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