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].
| Other author | Macdonald, Patricia, editor. |
| Other author | Hartshorn, Willis, commentator. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication | Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021] |
| Description | 233 pages : illustrations (colour) ; 32 cm. |
| Subjects |
| Series | Studies in photography Studies in photography. ^A160087 |
| 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 -- |
| Contents | 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. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781838382254 |
| ISBN | 1838382232 |
| ISBN | 9781838382230 hardcover |
| ISBN | electronic book |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | TR721 .S87 2021 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |