This new book examines the role of photography and visual culture in the emergence of ecological science between 1895 and 1939. It is about photography and the origins of ecology - about the practice of ecology as visual science. Picturing Ecology explores the contribution of visual experience and practice to scientific knowledge. It aims, in particular, to demonstrate the critical role played by photography in mediating and configuring new forms of knowledge emerging from ecology in the early twentieth century.
It concentrates mostly on the story of early British ecology, it recreates the field practices and social contexts of ecological science as a discipline carried out in excursions, public meetings, international gatherings and publications. Visual culture, and especially photography, is explored as central to all these discursive spaces. The study is underpinned by substantial research in a number of archives.
Picturing Ecology. Photography and the birth of a new science
Damian Hughes
Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 978-981-19-2515-3
£109.99 (hardcover) or £87.50 (epub)
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