"Nationalized Nature on Picture Postcards: Subtexts of Tourism from an Environmental Perspective"
Tourists are in a liminal position, on the verge of reality, and they need to communicate the success of this borderline experience back home.
Tourists are in a liminal position, on the verge of reality, and they need to communicate the success of this borderline experience back home.
Taking a closer look at the history of eco-images and their influence in current debates, this issue of RCC Perspectives analyzes the role of visual material in shaping environmental discourses.
Garth Lenz has played a major part in the fight against Alberta Tar Sands Mining through his photojournalism.
This film is a photographic journey showing the effects of human activity on a variety of landscapes.
Under the direction of David Brower, the Sierra Club issued photographic books, cards, and calendars featuring charismatic images of nature in a state of pristine grandeur or untrammeled intimacy to expand its membership and promote its environmentalism.
In 1862, Wilhelm von Blandowski produced The Encyclopedia of Australia as a large visual atlas of 142 plates dedicated to a comprehensive representation of the continent Australia.
This film follows photographer James Balog’s multi-year record of the impacts of climate change on the Arctic.
A geography and history of the Alps, filmed exclusively with aerial shots.
This award-winning film portrays Canada’s indigenous Inuit community and its dependence on eider down, in the face of dwindling eider duck populations as a result of man-made development.
Patagonia Rising gives voice to the Gauchos, a frontier people dependent on the Baker and Pascua river systems, who are caught in the struggle between Chile’s pro-dam business sector, clean energy proponents and the country’s rising energy demand.