This book examines the role of photography and visual culture in the emergence of ecological science between 1895 and 1939.
Author(s): Damian Hughes
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Year: 2022
Language: English
Pages: 510
City: Cham
Acknowledgements
About This Book
Contents
About the Author
List of Figures
1: Ecological History, Visual Science and Photography
‘At a Glance’
Visual Science, Visual Ecology
Exchange and Flow
Visual Methods, Visual Tools
Visual Places, Visual Bodies
Botany into Ecology
Mapping the Book
Bibliography
Primary Published Sources
Secondary Sources
2: New Natural Landscapes: Nature Tracing Its Own Shape
Visual and Natural Knowledge in Alexander Humboldt’s Phytogeography
The General Physiognomies of Anton Kerner von Marilaun
Ecological Foundations: Eugenius Warming and Andreas Schimper
Mapping the Field: The Beginnings of British Vegetation Survey
Bibliography
Primary Published Sources
Secondary Sources
3: Expanding the Field: Making Associations
British Associations: Ecology at the BAAS
Collecting Associations
Professional Associations
Ecological Associations
Photographic Associations
Outdoor Associations
Amateur Associations
Bibliography
Primary Published Sources
Secondary Sources
4: Picturing Vegetation: The Print Cultures of Ecology
Printing Pictures
The New Phytologists
A Journal for Ecology
Textbook Photography
Die Vegetation der Erde
Vegetationsbilder
Flora photographica
Picturing British Vegetation
Bibliography
Primary Published Sources
Secondary Sources
5: Hidden in Plain Sight: Visual Knowledge and Ecological Method
Scaling the View: Vegetation Mapping and Visual Ecology
Mapping, Rational Inventory and Affective Knowledge
Mapping and the Visual Body
Sketching Knowledge
Walking and Looking: Estimating Abundance and Characterising Vegetation
Looking and Counting: Mathematical Vision
Experiments in Ecological Surveying
Bibliography
Primary Published Sources
Secondary Sources
6: Taking to the Field: Exchanging Objects/Exchanging Views
Exchanging Photographs/Exchanging Objects
Natural Cultures of Collecting
Talking, Showing, Publishing
Rational Pleasures, Affective Objects, Authentic Places
Natural Objects of Photography
Bibliography
Primary Published Sources
Secondary Sources
7: Conclusion: Ecology and Photography as Visual Field Science
Ecological Vision
Material and Social Practice
Rhetoric and Representation
Visual Tools
Ecology in Place
Photography, History, Theory
Bibliography
Primary Published Sources
Secondary Sources
Archival Sources
Online Archives and Collections
Bibliography
Primary Published Sources
Secondary Sources
Index
