Photography and Environmental Activism - Visualising the Struggle Against Industrial Pollution

This publication maps out key moments in the history of environmentalist photography, while also examining contemporary examples of artistic practice.

List of contents

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

About the author

Conohar Scott is a Senior Lecturer in photographic theory and a practising artist at the University of Lincoln.

Summary

This publication maps out key moments in the history of environmentalist photography, while also examining contemporary examples of artistic practice.

Product details

• Authors: Conohar Scott, Scott Conohar
• Publisher: Routledge Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.04.2022
• EAN: 9781350099517
• ISBN: 978-1-350-09951-7
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Photography, Place, Environment
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Photography & photographs, The arts: general issues, PHOTOGRAPHY / History, Photography and photographs, The arts: general topics