Photography, Ecology and Historical Change in the Anthropocene - Activating Archives

Moving beyond existing scholarship, this book connects photography, archives, ecology, and historical change, and critically applies the Anthropocene as framework to the in-depth study of artists' projects. It discards single modes of seeing environmental transformations in favour of a multiple and de-centred environmental imagination.

List of contents

Introduction 1. Photography, Ecology and Archives in the Anthropocene: De-centring Environmental Imagination 2. Archival Metabolisms: Landscape Transformations in Nguyen the Thuc Kohle unter Magdeborn [Coal underneath Magdeborn] (1978) and Christiane Eisler (2014) 3. Re-activating the Sir Edward James Salisbury Photographic Archive of Ecological Images (ca. 1905-1938): Chrystel Lebas Field Studies (2011-) 4. A Yard of Jungle (1992/1915) and 'My Jungle Table' (1923) Re-performed: Naturalist William Beebe and Artist Mark Dion 5. Beyond the Plantation Archive: Performing Lives Through Photography in Joy Gregory and Philip Miller Seeds of Empire (2021) and Hans Sloane A Voyage . . . to Jamaica (1687/1688) Coda

About the author

Bergit Arends is British Academy Postdoctoral Research Fellow at The Courtauld Institute of Art.

Summary

Moving beyond existing scholarship, this book connects photography, archives, ecology, and historical change, and critically applies the Anthropocene as framework to the in-depth study of artists’ projects. It discards single modes of seeing environmental transformations in favour of a multiple and de-centred environmental imagination.

Product details

• Authors: Bergit Arends, Bergit (The Courtauld Institute of Art Arends, Arends Bergit
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.07.2024
• EAN: 9781032496429
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3249642-9
• No. of pages: 178
• Series: Photography, Place, Environment
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Photography & photographs, History: theory & methods, prehistory, The arts: general issues, ART / History / General, TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / General, PHOTOGRAPHY / General, HISTORY / Study & Teaching, History of art / art & design styles, History of Art, environmental science, engineering & technology, Archiving, preservation & digitisation, Art forms, Environmental science, engineering and technology, Photography and photographs, The Arts: art forms, History: theory and methods, The arts: general topics, Archiving, preservation and digitization, Holocene epoch