Imaging nature: Watkins, Yosemite, and the birth of environmentalism
Kevin Michael DeLuca|Anne Teresa Demo
This essay examines the significance of landscape photography in birth environmentalism. In particular, this considers how Carleton Watkins’ 1860s photographs Yosemite Valley created both a way viewing American and representational vocabulary for environmentalist claims to public preservation. understanding these images as rhetorical, offers sustained exploration political cultural effects visual rhetoric. constitutes critical intervention number discourses. Most obviously, work is contributing growing literature several disciplines that treats integral politics. Additionally, also adopting studies position considering politics its most encompassing sense accounting multiple manifestations. importantly, unearthing an episode history construction pristine wilderness sublime object environmentalism, interrupts mainstream environmental discourse pays homage icon without paying heed costs such devotion.
Critical Studies in Media Communication