Sunday 23 January 2011

Photographer Research

Book-What Matters created by David Elliott Cohen
Meltdown-A Global Warming Travelogue. Photographs by Gary Braasch

Top:Houses in the shadow if the Amos coal-fired power plant in Pocam West Virginia.
Bottom:China Steel Plant, part of Shougang Group, a major coal-burner

Aerial view of smog over Chicago during a record heat wave.

The Athabasca Glacier in Jasper National Park, ina 1917 photograph by the A.  O. Wheeler Survey of boundary (top) and again in 2005 (bottom).



Econonmic Miracle, Environmental Disaster. Photographs by Stephen Voss.
Top:Debris at the base of a pipe that releases black water from the state-owned Lianhua MSG factory. Local villagers protesed when many became sick with stomach and intestinal ailments. In 2004, Lianhua ("Lotus Flower") provided clean tap water to the village, but the company continued to pollute the river.
Bottom:A trash dump in Shenqui County clogs streams and pollutes groundwater.

Book: Ecotopia
Mitch Epstein "...has photographed  nuclear power plants, coal plants, oil-drilling operations and wind turbines, as well as the people who live in those places, their homes and backyards, and the surrounding landscape."
Gavin Coal Power Plant, Cheshire, Ohio, 2003

Amos Coal Power Plant, Raymond, West Virginia, 2004
Christopher Lamarca "..has been photographing environmental activists in Oregan who are prtesting logging activities that have been expanded by the Bush administration"
Forest Defenders, 2002-2005


Book:Robert Adams - Turning Back

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