Surveying The Anthropocene Environment And Photography Now 1st Edition Patricia Macdonald by Patricia Macdonald 9781838382230, 9781838382247, 1838382232, 1838382240 instant download after payment.

Studies Editions is a new initiative by Studies in Photography / the Scottish Society for the History of Photography which publishes a series of books on photography, alongside our well established biannual journal Studies in Photography and our limited editions of prints. These books deal with specific topics in more depth than is possible
within the scope of a journal article.
We are delighted that this book in the series considers a topic that is of such enormous relevance today: the contribution of photography to an understanding of pressing environmental issues and debates. The book provides an overview of the wide range of ways in which international artist photographers are currently surveying the increasingly heavy impacts of human activity on the Earth’s interrelated operational systems, in particular climate and the web of life, including human life. These works, in all their impressive variety, offer powerful comment on the multiple effects of what has come to be called, not without controversy, the Anthropocene epoch, or ‘age of humans’ a time during which the degree and extent of global human activity will leave a clear impact in the rocks of the future geological record. The book is particularly timely in this year in which the UK hosts the crucial COP26 Climate Conference, in Glasgow, and in which the Covid 19 pandemic probably indirectly caused by environmental
degradation continues to rage worldwide.