Picturing Ecology : Photography and the Birth of a New Science

This book examines the role of photography and visual culture in the emergence of ecological science between 1895 and 1939. Dr Damian Hughes is an independent researcher and photohistorian with 25 years' experience as a practicing field ecologist. Acknowledgements About This Book Contents About the Author List of Figures 1: Ecological History, Visual Science and Photography ‘At a Glance’ Visual Science, Visual Ecology Exchange and Flow Visual Methods, Visual Tools Visual Places, Visual Bodies Botany into Ecology Mapping the Book Bibliography Primary Published Sources Secondary Sources 2: New Natural Landscapes: Nature Tracing Its Own Shape Visual and Natural Knowledge in Alexander Humboldt’s Phytogeography The General Physiognomies of Anton Kerner von Marilaun Ecological Foundations: Eugenius Warming and Andreas Schimper Mapping the Field: The Beginnings of British Vegetation Survey Bibliography Primary Published Sources Secondary Sources 3: Expanding the Field: Making Associations British Associations: Ecology at the BAAS Collecting Associations Professional Associations Ecological Associations Photographic Associations Outdoor Associations Amateur Associations Bibliography Primary Published Sources Secondary Sources 4: Picturing Vegetation: The Print Cultures of Ecology Printing Pictures The New Phytologists A Journal for Ecology Textbook Photography Die Vegetation der Erde Vegetationsbilder Flora photographica Picturing British Vegetation Bibliography Primary Published Sources Secondary Sources 5: Hidden in Plain Sight: Visual Knowledge and Ecological Method Scaling the View: Vegetation Mapping and Visual Ecology Mapping, Rational Inventory and Affective Knowledge Mapping and the Visual Body Sketching Knowledge Walking and Looking: Estimating Abundance and Characterising Vegetation Looking and Counting: Mathematical Vision Experiments in Ecological Surveying Bibliography Primary Published Sources Secondary Sources 6: Taking to the Field: Exchanging Objects/Exchanging Views Exchanging Photographs/Exchanging Objects Natural Cultures of Collecting Talking, Showing, Publishing Rational Pleasures, Affective Objects, Authentic Places Natural Objects of Photography Bibliography Primary Published Sources Secondary Sources 7: Conclusion: Ecology and Photography as Visual Field Science Ecological Vision Material and Social Practice Rhetoric and Representation Visual Tools Ecology in Place Photography, History, Theory Bibliography Primary Published Sources Secondary Sources Archival Sources Online Archives and Collections Bibliography Primary Published Sources Secondary Sources Index