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The photography of debate and desire: Images, environment and the public sphere
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McGaurr, L, The photography of debate and desire: Images, environment and the public sphere, Ethical Space, 13, (2/3) pp. 16-33. ISSN 1742-0105 (2016) [Refereed Article]
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Abstract
Photography has long been a powerful tool of environmental
communication and debate. In their efforts to promote
environmental issues, landscape and wildlife photographers
committed to conservation may provide images to established
environmental non-government organisations (ENGOs),
appear in activist documentaries, found their own ENGOs,
curate websites and social media pages, run galleries or
publish books. Yet the same photographs and photography
events that feature in activist media may also appear in the
editorial sections of commercial newspapers and magazines,
and in public relations and advertising for consumer goods.
This paper draws on interviews with photographers and ENGO
spokespeople in North America to consider the implications
for the public sphere of image events that combine activist
media and mainstream media to promote environmental
concern.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | image event, public screen, public sphere, environmental movements, Great Bear Rainforest |
Research Division: | Language, Communication and Culture |
Research Group: | Communication and media studies |
Research Field: | Media studies |
Objective Division: | Culture and Society |
Objective Group: | Communication |
Objective Field: | The media |
UTAS Author: | McGaurr, L (Dr Lynette McGaurr) |
ID Code: | 109260 |
Year Published: | 2016 |
Deposited By: | School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2016-06-06 |
Last Modified: | 2017-11-09 |
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