Photography, Ecology and Historical Change in the Anthropocene

Activating Archives

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvBergit Arends,UK) Arends, Bergit (The Courtauld Institute of Art

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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 multidisciplinary perspectives to view localized 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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2024-07-09
Mått174 x 246 x 17 mm
Vikt640 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePhotography, Place, Environment
Antal sidor178
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032496429

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Introduction 1. Photography, Ecology and Archives in the Anthropocene: De-centring Environmental Imagination 2. Archival Metabolisms: Landscape Transformations in Nguyen the Thuc Kohle unter Magdeborn [Coal underneath Magdeborn] (1978) and Christiane Eisler (2014) 3. Re-activating the Sir Edward James Salisbury Photographic Archive of Ecological Images (ca. 1905–1938): Chrystel Lebas Field Studies (2011–) 4. A Yard of Jungle (1992/1915) and ‘My Jungle Table’ (1923) Re-performed: Naturalist William Beebe and Artist Mark Dion 5. 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 (1687/1688) Coda

“Arends ticks all the boxes in this fresh, innovative, and multi-disciplinary approach to photography and the Anthropocene. Timely, relevant, and insightful, Photography, Ecology and Historical Change in the Anthropocene employs a broadened perspective on archives to demonstrate the power of contemporary artists to address the pressing environmental issues of our times.”-- Joan M. Schwartz, Queen’s University, Canada"By reconceiving the archive as a living, relational and performative site, Arends offers a powerful argument for the role of contemporary art in both critiquing and reimagining the environmental crises of our time."-- Science Museum Group Journal