Communicating the Environment Beyond Photography

by Michelle I. Seelig

Overview

Communicating the Environment Beyond Photography is a modern look at how photographers visualize what is happening to people and places on a changing planet. This book showcases strategies practiced by photographers, environmentalists, and advocacy groups in the twenty-first century and will serve as inspiration for future advocates of environmental issues and other important and just causes.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781433128264
Publisher:	Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Publication date:	11/23/2015
Series:	Visual Communication , #6
Edition description:	2nd ed.
Pages:	201
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)

About the Author

Michelle I. Seelig (PhD, Florida State University) is Associate Professor at the University of Miami, where she teaches visual communication. Her research focuses extensively on photography and interactive media, particularly how they continue to change the way we communicate and interact in our everyday lives.

Table of Contents

Contents: Communicating the Environment – Photo Documents – The Great Awakening – From Beauty to Decay – Mediating the Environment – Envisioning the Environment in the 21^st Century – When Photos Are Not Enough – A Better Tomorrow?

Editorial Reviews

«With the passion of a concerned photojournalist and the definitional clarity of a scholar, Michelle I. Seelig lays the foundation for a theory of environmental photography. She clearly distinguishes the genre of environmental photography from nature and conservation photography and makes a solid case for the power of visual advocacy to shift how we perceive and interact with the environment.»
(Julianne H. Newton, Edwin L. Artzt Interim Dean and Professor of Visual Communication, University of Oregon School of Journalism and Communication)

«Michelle I. Seelig brings us on a timely journey through the visual representation of our world and our relationship to it. She movingly explains, not only why seeing is believing, but also why that is critical when photographic evidence of controversial environmental issues are so necessary.»
(Roxanne M. O’Connell, Professor of Communication, Roger Williams University)

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