Finis Dunaway
Biographic Data
| ID | 453986 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Finis Dunaway |
| GIVEN NAMES | Finis |
| FAMILY NAME | Dunaway |
| SIGNATURE | DUNAWAY F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trent University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 12 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 12 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Notes from the Icehouse: Representations, Traces, Vital Agents: Why Images Matter to Environmental History
Beyond Fortress Conservation: Postcards of Biodiversity and Justice
Since the late nineteenth century, visual culture has played an active role in naturalizing fortress conservation—a colonial model that began with the founding of Yellowstone National Park in 1872 and still shapes biodiversity and land policies around the world. Just as fortress conservation created a sharp divide between wilderness and human society, visual images—historically and today—traffic in tropes of untouched land to disavow Indigenous p…
Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice
Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Considered sacred by Indigenous peoples in Alaska and Canada and treasured by environmentalists, the refuge provides life-sustaining habitat for caribou, polar bears, migratory birds, and other species. For decades, though, the fossil fuel industry and powerful politicians have sought to turn this …
J. Keri Cronin. Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870–1914
In Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870–1914, J. Keri Cronin offers a compelling and original analysis of how visual images contributed to animal advocacy campaigns during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among the many distinctive features of this book is Cronin’s persuasive effort to emphasize the agency of images. Throughout the study, she demonstrates how visual culture was not peripheral to animal advoc…
Film Forum Introduction
Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images
Over 15 chapters, Dunaway transforms what we know about icons and events. Seeing Green is the first history of ads, films, political posters, and magazine photography in the postwar American environmental movement. From fear of radioactive fallout during the Cold War to anxieties about global warming today, images have helped to produce what Dunaway calls "ecological citizenship," telling us that "we are all to blame." Dunaway heightens our aware…
Seeing Global Warming: Contemporary Art and the Fate of the Planet
Contemporary environmental artists are increasingly turning their attention to climate change. Focusing on an exhibition curated by the renowned art critic Lucy R. Lippard, this essay places selected works in dialogue with mass media framings of environmental problems to reveal how contemporary art can generate new ways of seeing global warming. I argue that the show sought to forge perceptual links between local and global environmental change a…
Gas Masks, Pogo, and the Ecological Indian: Earth Day and the Visual Politics of American Environmentalism
This essay offers a new way of understanding a pivotal moment in the history of U.S. environmentalism: the time surrounding the first celebration of Earth Day in 1970. By exploring a wide array of visual images produced during this period and paying particular attention to pictures of people wearing gas masks, the comic strip character Pogo, and the figure of the Ecological Indian, the article examines the complex relationship between the mass me…
Special Forum: Films Every Environmental Historian Should See
Reframing the Last Frontier: Subhankar Banerjee and the Visual Politics of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land. Organized by the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, September 13–December 31, 2003. Exhibition Curator: Gail H. Hull. Designers: Diane Dias and Linda Kulik. New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, February 7–May 9, 2004; Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., June 5–September 12, 2004; Colorado Mountain Club, Golden, October 9, 2004–January 9, 2005; Th…
Finis Dunaway on the Subtle Spectacle of Fallen Leaves
Hunting with the Camera: Nature Photography, Manliness, and Modern Memory, 1890–1930
On January 7, 1892, Forest and Stream – the magazine of “true sportsmen” – featured a photograph of wild mule deer taken by Fred Baker, a hunter from Wyoming. A doe and her two fawns rest peacefully in front of a patch of sagebrush, as the midday sun casts a bright light. “Here, by a piece of good fortune which might not come to a man once in a lifetime,” the editor George Bird Grinnell explained, “Mr. Baker discovered the deer, and creeping up t…
Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images
Over 15 chapters, Dunaway transforms what we know about icons and events. Seeing Green is the first history of ads, films, political posters, and magazine photography in the postwar American environmental movement. From fear of radioactive fallout during the Cold War to anxieties about global warming today, images have helped to produce what Dunaway calls "ecological citizenship," telling us that "we are all to blame." Dunaway heightens our aware…
Gas Masks, Pogo, and the Ecological Indian: Earth Day and the Visual Politics of American Environmentalism
This essay offers a new way of understanding a pivotal moment in the history of U.S. environmentalism: the time surrounding the first celebration of Earth Day in 1970. By exploring a wide array of visual images produced during this period and paying particular attention to pictures of people wearing gas masks, the comic strip character Pogo, and the figure of the Ecological Indian, the article examines the complex relationship between the mass me…
Hunting with the Camera: Nature Photography, Manliness, and Modern Memory, 1890–1930
On January 7, 1892, Forest and Stream – the magazine of “true sportsmen” – featured a photograph of wild mule deer taken by Fred Baker, a hunter from Wyoming. A doe and her two fawns rest peacefully in front of a patch of sagebrush, as the midday sun casts a bright light. “Here, by a piece of good fortune which might not come to a man once in a lifetime,” the editor George Bird Grinnell explained, “Mr. Baker discovered the deer, and creeping up t…
Seeing Global Warming: Contemporary Art and the Fate of the Planet
Contemporary environmental artists are increasingly turning their attention to climate change. Focusing on an exhibition curated by the renowned art critic Lucy R. Lippard, this essay places selected works in dialogue with mass media framings of environmental problems to reveal how contemporary art can generate new ways of seeing global warming. I argue that the show sought to forge perceptual links between local and global environmental change a…
Reframing the Last Frontier: Subhankar Banerjee and the Visual Politics of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land. Organized by the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, September 13–December 31, 2003. Exhibition Curator: Gail H. Hull. Designers: Diane Dias and Linda Kulik. New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, February 7–May 9, 2004; Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., June 5–September 12, 2004; Colorado Mountain Club, Golden, October 9, 2004–January 9, 2005; Th…
Beyond Fortress Conservation: Postcards of Biodiversity and Justice
Since the late nineteenth century, visual culture has played an active role in naturalizing fortress conservation—a colonial model that began with the founding of Yellowstone National Park in 1872 and still shapes biodiversity and land policies around the world. Just as fortress conservation created a sharp divide between wilderness and human society, visual images—historically and today—traffic in tropes of untouched land to disavow Indigenous p…
Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice
Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Considered sacred by Indigenous peoples in Alaska and Canada and treasured by environmentalists, the refuge provides life-sustaining habitat for caribou, polar bears, migratory birds, and other species. For decades, though, the fossil fuel industry and powerful politicians have sought to turn this …
Special Forum: Films Every Environmental Historian Should See
Hunting with the Camera: Nature Photography, Manliness, and Modern Memory, 1890–1930
On January 7, 1892, Forest and Stream – the magazine of “true sportsmen” – featured a photograph of wild mule deer taken by Fred Baker, a hunter from Wyoming. A doe and her two fawns rest peacefully in front of a patch of sagebrush, as the midday sun casts a bright light. “Here, by a piece of good fortune which might not come to a man once in a lifetime,” the editor George Bird Grinnell explained, “Mr. Baker discovered the deer, and creeping up t…
Finis Dunaway on the Subtle Spectacle of Fallen Leaves
Reframing the Last Frontier: Subhankar Banerjee and the Visual Politics of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge
Arctic National Wildlife Refuge: Seasons of Life and Land. Organized by the California Academy of Sciences, San Francisco, September 13–December 31, 2003. Exhibition Curator: Gail H. Hull. Designers: Diane Dias and Linda Kulik. New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque, February 7–May 9, 2004; Harvard Museum of Natural History, Cambridge, Mass., June 5–September 12, 2004; Colorado Mountain Club, Golden, October 9, 2004–January 9, 2005; Th…
Special Forum: Films Every Environmental Historian Should See
Gas Masks, Pogo, and the Ecological Indian: Earth Day and the Visual Politics of American Environmentalism
This essay offers a new way of understanding a pivotal moment in the history of U.S. environmentalism: the time surrounding the first celebration of Earth Day in 1970. By exploring a wide array of visual images produced during this period and paying particular attention to pictures of people wearing gas masks, the comic strip character Pogo, and the figure of the Ecological Indian, the article examines the complex relationship between the mass me…
Seeing Global Warming: Contemporary Art and the Fate of the Planet
Contemporary environmental artists are increasingly turning their attention to climate change. Focusing on an exhibition curated by the renowned art critic Lucy R. Lippard, this essay places selected works in dialogue with mass media framings of environmental problems to reveal how contemporary art can generate new ways of seeing global warming. I argue that the show sought to forge perceptual links between local and global environmental change a…
Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images
Over 15 chapters, Dunaway transforms what we know about icons and events. Seeing Green is the first history of ads, films, political posters, and magazine photography in the postwar American environmental movement. From fear of radioactive fallout during the Cold War to anxieties about global warming today, images have helped to produce what Dunaway calls "ecological citizenship," telling us that "we are all to blame." Dunaway heightens our aware…
Film Forum Introduction
J. Keri Cronin. Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870–1914
In Art for Animals: Visual Culture and Animal Advocacy, 1870–1914, J. Keri Cronin offers a compelling and original analysis of how visual images contributed to animal advocacy campaigns during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Among the many distinctive features of this book is Cronin’s persuasive effort to emphasize the agency of images. Throughout the study, she demonstrates how visual culture was not peripheral to animal advoc…
Defending the Arctic Refuge: A Photographer, an Indigenous Nation, and a Fight for Environmental Justice
Tucked away in the northeastern corner of Alaska is one of the most contested landscapes in all of North America: the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Considered sacred by Indigenous peoples in Alaska and Canada and treasured by environmentalists, the refuge provides life-sustaining habitat for caribou, polar bears, migratory birds, and other species. For decades, though, the fossil fuel industry and powerful politicians have sought to turn this …
Notes from the Icehouse: Representations, Traces, Vital Agents: Why Images Matter to Environmental History
Beyond Fortress Conservation: Postcards of Biodiversity and Justice
Since the late nineteenth century, visual culture has played an active role in naturalizing fortress conservation—a colonial model that began with the founding of Yellowstone National Park in 1872 and still shapes biodiversity and land policies around the world. Just as fortress conservation created a sharp divide between wilderness and human society, visual images—historically and today—traffic in tropes of untouched land to disavow Indigenous p…
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