LEADER 04417nam 22005775 450 001 9910154682003321 005 20200424112023.0 010 $a0-226-45424-X 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226454245 035 $a(CKB)3710000000971838 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4815107 035 $a(DE-B1597)524703 035 $a(OCoLC)1125189427 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226454245 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000971838 100 $a20200424h20162005 fg 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $2rdacontent 182 $2rdamedia 183 $2rdacarrier 200 10$aNatural Visions $eThe Power of Images in American Environmental Reform /$fFinis Dunaway 210 1$aChicago : $cUniversity of Chicago Press, $d[2016] 210 4$dİ2005 215 $a1 online resource (280 pages) $cillustrations (some color) 311 $a0-226-17326-7 311 $a0-226-17325-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIllustrations -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $tAbbreviations -- $t1. Gleason's Transparent Eyeball -- $t2. The Decline to Dust -- $t3. The River of Time -- $t4. A Flicker of Permanence -- $t5. Nature on the Coffee Table -- $t6. Thoreau with a Camera -- $t7. American Elegy, American Renewal -- $tEpilogue. The Ecological Sublime -- $tNotes -- $tIndex 330 $aWalden Pond. The Grand Canyon.Yosemite National Park. Throughout the twentieth century, photographers and filmmakers created unforgettable images of these and other American natural treasures. Many of these images, including the work of Ansel Adams, continue to occupy a prominent place in the American imagination. Making these representations, though, was more than a purely aesthetic project. In fact, portraying majestic scenes and threatened places galvanized concern for the environment and its protection. Natural Visions documents through images the history of environmental reform from the Progressive era to the first Earth Day celebration in 1970, showing the crucial role the camera played in the development of the conservation movement. In Natural Visions, Finis Dunaway tells the story of how visual imagery-such as wilderness photographs, New Deal documentary films, and Sierra Club coffee-table books-shaped modern perceptions of the natural world. By examining the relationship between the camera and environmental politics through detailed studies of key artists and activists, Dunaway captures the emotional and spiritual meaning that became associated with the American landscape. Throughout the book, he reveals how photographers and filmmakers adapted longstanding traditions in American culture-the Puritan jeremiad, the romantic sublime, and the frontier myth-to literally picture nature as a place of grace for the individual and the nation. Beautifully illustrated with photographs by Ansel Adams, Eliot Porter, and a host of other artists, Natural Visions will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in American cultural history, the visual arts, and environmentalism. 606 $aEnvironmentalism$zUnited States$vPictorial works 606 $aNature conservation$zUnited States$vPictorial works 606 $aEnvironmental protection in art 606 $aNatural areas$zUnited States$vPictorial works 606 $aNature photography$zUnited States$y20th century 606 $aWildlife photographers$zUnited States 610 $aenvironmentalism, conservation, photography, reform, politics, political movements, film, documentary, public opinion, walden pond, grand canyon, yosemite, national parks, ansel adams, naturalist, nature, wildlife, protection, progressive era, earth day, wilderness, majesty, beauty, sierra club, new deal, artists, activism, art, frontier myth, romanticism, sublime, transcendentalism, nonfiction, history, aesthetics, landscape, thoreau, popular culture. 615 0$aEnvironmentalism 615 0$aNature conservation 615 0$aEnvironmental protection in art. 615 0$aNatural areas 615 0$aNature photography 615 0$aWildlife photographers 676 $a333.72/0973 700 $aDunaway$b Finis, $4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0968158 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910154682003321 996 $aNatural Visions$92198863 997 $aUNINA