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Article: Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
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- September 22, 2006
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Natural Visions: The Power of Images in American Environmental Reform, by Finis Dunaway. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2005. xxiv, 246 pp. $37.50 US (cloth).
Common sense would suggest that photographic images have played a big role in shaping America's environmental movement. Yet many environmental historians have chosen to use pictures made by such artists as Ansel Adams as illustrations to more text-based inquiries of the history of environmental thought, preferring the words of Henry Thoreau or John Muir. Not Finis Dunaway. In a compelling argument told in an engaging style, Dunaway's Natural Visions documents the role played by images in ...