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Photography, ecology and historical change in the anthropocene : activating archives
Author
Title
Photography, ecology and historical change in the anthropocene : activating archives / Bergit Arends.
ISBN
1003395112
1040086233
1040086284
9781003395119
9781040086230
9781040086285
9781032496429
9781032497112
Publication
New York, NY : Routledge, 2025.
Copyright Notice Date
©2025
Physical Description
1 online resource (xi, 177 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Biographical / Historical Note
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. Bergit Arends uses multi-disciplinary perspectives to view localised environmental, social, and political issues through research-based artistic practices. The book not only makes available original research into newly and recently discovered archives of ecological and historical change, but also shows how this research is manifest in exhibition formats. This book presents international, transhistorical projects by contemporary visual artists who use archives together with photography as documentary and performative media for the comparative study of environments and places. A wide array of artists from diverse backgrounds working primarily in Europe and North America from the 1970s to the present day are discussed and set in relation to Anthropocene narratives. Case studies include environmental archive-based work by Nguyen the Thuc, Christiane Eisler, Chrystel Lebas, Mark Dion, Joy Gregory and Philip Miller. The book will be of interest to scholars working in photography, archive studies, art history, visual culture, environmental humanities, and ecocriticism"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Taylor & Francis. EBA 2024-2025.
Other formats
Print version: Arends, Bergit. Photography, ecology and historical change in the anthropocene New York, NY : Routledge, 2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 08, 2024
Series
Photography, place, environment
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Photography, ecology and archives in the anthropocene : de-centring environmental imagination
Archival metabolisms : landscape transformations in Nguyen the Thuc Kohle unter Magdeborn [Coal underneath Magdeborn] (1978) and Christiane Eisler (2014)
Re-activating the Sir Edward James Salisbury Photographic Archive of Ecological Images (ca. 1905-1938) : Chrystel Lebas' Field studies (2011-)
A yard of jungle (1992/1915) and My jungle table (1923) re-performed : naturalist William Beebe and artist Mark Dion
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 (1687/88).
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