Bringing together insights from environmental history and photographic history, this lecture focuses on climate and weather as subjects understood in and through photographic images, and the ways in which weather and climate shape the very possibility of photography in the first place. Focussing on specific historical examples, it explores how weather changes are seen, felt and experienced by people, in relation to the ways in which photography “senses” changes in the atmosphere around it, and also with respect to the emotional atmosphere or collective mood captured by photographs of extreme and unusual weather. J
Originally given on 25 May 2022 jointly by Professor Georgina Endfield, Professor of Environmental History, and Professor Michelle Henning, Chair in Photography and Media.
The recording of the lecture is available here: https://stream.liv.ac.uk/rtqm9ecu
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