Peter Goin and the Photography of Environmental Change: Visual Literacy and Altered Landscapes

ISBN-13: 9781032080338 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 394 str.

Peter Goin

Opis

The book narrates the forty-year quest of internationally exhibited contemporary photographer Peter Goin to document human-altered landscapes across America and beyond. It is a collaborative work between an artist and a literary critic, a retrospective of an accomplished environmental photographer and an education in visual reading.

Spis treści

1 Introduction: Leave your shoes at the door; 2 Biographical sketch: It’s not about me; 3 On the road; 4 Evolving landscapes; 5 American ruins; 6 Urban wild; 7 A line on the landscape; 8 Landscapes of fear; 9 Militarizing the American West; 10 Landscape is architecture; 11 Humanature; 12 The postmodern West; 13 Sensual anthropomorphs; 14 Arid waters; 15 Changing mines; 16 Water into light; 17 Ancestral artisans; 18 New nature; 19 Artifacts of the future; 20 Epilogue: Goin home; Appendix A: Peter Goin’s books, archives, and collections; Appendix B: Keys to reading the visual language of photography, by Peter Goin