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Subject(s)

• Environmental degradation—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Pollution—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Environmental disasters—Pictorial works [Browse]
• Documentary photography [Browse]

Contributor

• Hansen, James E. (James Edward), 1941- [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Illustrated works [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• illustrated books [Browse]

Summary note

"This is a book of photographs of environmental disasters occurring at different points in the consumer/industrial cycle, which illustrate the negative impact our contemporary consumer society has on the planetary systems that sustain our existence ... Essays written by some of the top writers, scientists, and environmentalisets of our day punctuate the images. They were asked to write personal memoirs with an environmental focus, and the results range from hilarious to heart-wrenching. At the end is an appendix with more information about each image and a graphic representation of the environmental impact seen therein. The objective of these pictures is not to vilify any given company or industry -- there are good and bad actors everywhere. My intent is to engage the viewer, stimlulate curiosity, and encourage dialog"--Introduction, p. 7.

Contents

• Crisis in the Gulf. Resolution / Frances Mayes
• From the beginning
• Life on the Mississippi. A new American dream / Tensie Whelan. Can art change society? / John Rockwell
• Just a facial tissue. Life is God's masterpiece / Allen Hershkowitz
• Turn off the lights. Activist / James Hansen
• After Katrina. Perishing beauty / Roger D. Hodge. At two with nature / Jack Hitt
• All my exes live in Texas
• Feeding the masses
• The end?

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ISBN

• 9781576875605 ((hbk.))
• 1576875601 ((hbk.))

LCCN

2010936242

OCLC

548412901

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