Picturing Ecology

Photography and the birth of a new science

Damian Hughes (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

491 Seiten

2023 | 1st ed. 2022
Palgrave Macmillan (Verlag)
978-981-19-2517-7 (ISBN)

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This book examines the role of photography and visual culture in the emergence of ecological science between 1895 and 1939.

Dr Damian Hughes is an independent researcher and photohistorian with 25 years’ experience as a practicing field ecologist.

1 Ecological history, visual science and photography.- 2 New Natural Landscapes: Nature tracing its own shape.- 3 Expanding the Field : Making Associations.- 4 Picturing Vegetation : The print cultures of ecology.- 5 Hidden in plain sight : Visual knowledge and ecological method.- 6 Taking to the Field : Exchanging objects/exchanging views.- 7 Conclusion : Ecology and photography as visual field science.

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2023
Zusatzinfo	46 Illustrations, color; 51 Illustrations, black and white; XXIV, 491 p. 97 illus., 46 illus. in color.
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	early British ecology • Ecological Science • ecology and photography • field sciences • History of Ecology • History of photography • History of Science • material culture • Natural History • photographic practice • Scientific practices • sensory history • Visual Culture • Visual methods • Visual Studies
ISBN-10	981-19-2517-8 / 9811925178
ISBN-13	978-981-19-2517-7 / 9789811925177
Zustand	Neuware