1st Edition
Photography and Environmental Activism Visualising the Struggle Against Industrial Pollution
By Conohar Scott
Copyright 2022
198 Pages
16 Color & 17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
198 Pages
16 Color & 17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
198 Pages
16 Color & 17 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This publication maps out key moments in the history of environmentalist photography, while also examining contemporary examples of artistic practice.
Historically, photography has acted as a technology for documenting the industrial transformation of the world around us; usually to benefit the interests of capitalist markets. An alternative photographic tradition exists, however, in which the... Read more
Introduction, Part 1: Photography and the Politics of Pollution, 1. Toxic Foam and the Valorisation of Capital, 2. Histories of Environmental Subjugation, 3. The Ugly Subject of Industrial Pollution, 4. Plastic Taxonomies and the Symbiotic Real, Part 2: Photography as Environmental Activism, 5. Environmental Activism in Praxis, 6. The Politics of the Sublime(s), 7. Multimodality and Photobook Activism, 8. Activism and the Augmented Photograph
Biography
Conohar Scott is a Senior Lecturer in photographic theory and a practising artist at the University of Lincoln.
