This article argues that environmental citizenship, understood as sustainable forms of
consumption, is increasingly constructed through visual regimes of nostalgia for both pristine …

Relatively little attention has been devoted to understanding the role visuals play in shaping
environmental imaginations and actions. This study seeks to help fill this gap by examining …

Recent literature has explored the interplay between the Romantic gaze and the extractive
gaze to conclude that in separating people from nature, both gazes function similarly to …

This essay examines the Canary Project's Green Patriot Posters campaign as activist art that
collectively comments on the cultural coherence of our current relations to the environment …

Photography has an important place in picturing and documenting environmental changes,
especially when they occur in distant areas, or are inaccessible from ground level and/or …

Stock photos are generic, ready-made visual conceptualizations of everyday myths. They
have low credibility among audiences, yet they are proliferating in visual communication …

Catherine Elwes opens her latest monograph, Landscape and the Moving Image, reflecting
on an ambivalent feeling circulating in the contemporary art world addressed to works …

Photographs have long been integral in revealing American values, ideals, and identity.
Accordingly, a study of environmental, or" conservation," imagery offers insight into …

This special issue of Public Culture explores forms of environmental image making and
visualization in the context of the Anthropocene. The essays aim to spark dialogue about …

This essay examines the value of pensive, non-illustrative photographs in generating public
sentiment for addressing climate change. The authors use their own work with the arts …