Natural Visions
Title | Natural Visions PDF eBook |
Author | Finis Dunaway |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2016-12-20 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 022645424X |
Walden Pond. The Grand Canyon.Yosemite National Park. Throughout the twentieth century, photographers and filmmakers created unforgettable images of these and other American natural treasures. Many of these images, including the work of Ansel Adams, continue to occupy a prominent place in the American imagination. Making these representations, though, was more than a purely aesthetic project. In fact, portraying majestic scenes and threatened places galvanized concern for the environment and its protection. Natural Visions documents through images the history of environmental reform from the Progressive era to the first Earth Day celebration in 1970, showing the crucial role the camera played in the development of the conservation movement. In Natural Visions, Finis Dunaway tells the story of how visual imagery—such as wilderness photographs, New Deal documentary films, and Sierra Club coffee-table books—shaped modern perceptions of the natural world. By examining the relationship between the camera and environmental politics through detailed studies of key artists and activists, Dunaway captures the emotional and spiritual meaning that became associated with the American landscape. Throughout the book, he reveals how photographers and filmmakers adapted longstanding traditions in American culture—the Puritan jeremiad, the romantic sublime, and the frontier myth—to literally picture nature as a place of grace for the individual and the nation. Beautifully illustrated with photographs by Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, and a host of other artists, Natural Visions will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in American cultural history, the visual arts, and environmentalism.
Twilight Zone
Title | Twilight Zone PDF eBook |
Author | John Woodward |
Publisher | Capstone Classroom |
Pages | 52 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781403451354 |
Takes readers on a color-illustrated journey into the world's oceans, describing such fish and animals as vampire squid, hatchet fish, and elephant seals as well as deep-sea exploration equipment and the effects of water pressure.
Visions of Nature
Title | Visions of Nature PDF eBook |
Author | Dr. Jarrod Hore |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 352 |
Release | 2022-04-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0520381270 |
Visions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the colonies of the Tasman World and in California. Despite having little association with one another, these photographers developed remarkably similar visions of nature. They rode a wave of interest in wilderness imagery and made pictures that were hung in settler drawing rooms, perused in albums, projected in theaters, and re-created on vacations. In both the American West and the Tasman World, landscape photography fed into settler belonging and produced new ways of thinking about territory and history. During this key period of settler revolution, a generation of photographers came to associate “nature” with remoteness, antiquity, and emptiness, a perspective that disguised the realities of Indigenous presence and reinforced colonial fantasies of environmental abundance. This book lifts the work of these photographers out of their provincial contexts and repositions it within a new comparative frame.
Natural Visions
Title | Natural Visions PDF eBook |
Author | Heather Angel |
Publisher | Amphoto Books |
Pages | 150 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Photography |
ISBN | 9780817449926 |
Packed with practical advice on how to improve nature photography, this book is aimed at camera novices who have mastered the basics and want to develop a fresher, more creative approach.
Midnight Zone
Title | Midnight Zone PDF eBook |
Author | John Woodward |
Publisher | Capstone Classroom |
Pages | 50 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | 9781403451316 |
Investigate some of the most vibrant realms on Earth. Track sea turtles on their annual migrations, explore the Titanic, or scuba dive through underwater caverns. Each book sends the reader on a mission to explore a particular ocean zone and examine its wildlife and geography. The explorer is equipped with a route map, equipment, and a firm base of scientific facts and theories explaining everything from how satellite navigation works to marine snow.
The Power of Images
Title | The Power of Images PDF eBook |
Author | David Freedberg |
Publisher | University of Chicago Press |
Pages | 561 |
Release | 2013-02-01 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 022625903X |
"This learned and heavy volume should be placed on the shelves of every art historical library."—E. H. Gombrich, New York Review of Books "This is an engaged and passionate work by a writer with powerful convictions about art, images, aesthetics, the art establishment, and especially the discipline of art history. It is animated by an extraordinary erudition."—Arthur C. Danto, The Art Bulletin "Freedberg's ethnographic and historical range is simply stunning. . . . The Power of Images is an extraordinary critical achievement, exhilarating in its polemic against aesthetic orthodoxy, endlessly fascinating in its details. . . . This is a powerful, disturbing book."—T. J. Jackson Lears, Wilson Quarterly "Freedberg helps us to see that one cannot do justice to the images of art unless one recognizes in them the entire range of human responses, from the lowly impulses prevailing in popular imagery to their refinement in the great visions of the ages."—Rudolf Arnheim, Times Literary Supplement
Visions of Seaside
Title | Visions of Seaside PDF eBook |
Author | Dhiru A. Thadani |
Publisher | Rizzoli Publications |
Pages | 608 |
Release | 2013-09-03 |
Genre | Architecture |
ISBN | 0847841537 |
Time magazine noted that Seaside "could be the most astonishing design achievement of its era…." Visions of Seaside is the most comprehensive book on the history and development of the nation’s first and most influential New Urbanist town. The book chronicles the thirty-year history of the evolution and development of Seaside, Florida, its global influence on town planning, and the resurgence of place-making in the built environment. Through a rich repository of historical materials and writings, the book chronicles numerous architectural and planning schemes, and outlines a blueprint for moving forward over the next twenty-five to fifty years. Among the many contributors are Deborah Berke, Andrés Duany, Steven Holl, Léon Krier, Elizabeth Plater-Zyberk, Aldo Rossi, and Robert A. M. Stern.