"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.
Despite being subject to censorship and restrictions, photographs of US military bases can reveal patterns of unsustainability. This is a chapter of the virtual exhibition “Representing Environmental Risk in the Landscapes of US Militarization,” written and curated by literary scholar Hsu Hsuan.
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.