This wonderful book by Bergit Arends connects photography, archives, ecology and historical change and critically applies the Anthropocene as a framework to the in-depth study of artists’ projects. It discards single modes of seeing environmental transformations in favour of a multiple and de-centred environmental imagination.
Bergit Arends uses multidisciplinary perspectives to view localised environmental, social and political issues through research-based artistic practices. This book presents international, transhistorical projects by contemporary visual artists who use archives together with photography as documentary and performative media for the comparative study of environments and places. A wide array of artists from diverse backgrounds working primarily in Europe and North America from the 1970s to the present day are discussed and set in relation to Anthropocene narratives. Case studies include environmental archive-based work by Nguyen the Thuc, Christiane Eisler, Chrystel Lebas, Mark Dion, Philip Miller and myself.
https://www.routledge.com/Photography-Ecology-and-Historical-Change-in-the-Anthropocene-Activating-Archives/Arends/p/book/9781032496429?srsltid=AfmBOopcymsfd99rUvMstp1nwRBdigO3aPwYh83uZ0LCjaq1dA4BnSf_