Agricultural Literacy — Visual Empiricism in New Deal Conservation

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Table of Contents 5
3. Project "Documerica" — the Record of a Missed Opportunity? Forward 7
4. Between Science and an Ecological Mandate — Photographs of Environmental Phenomena. Introduction 11
5. Collecting Visual Evidence — Nineteenth-century Landscape Photography and the Emergence of Science 35
6. Agricultural Literacy — Visual Empiricism in New Deal Conservation 83
7. Depicting Disaster — Environmental Photography under the Nixon Presidency 137
8. Conclusions 217
9. Abbreviations 227
10. Archival Research and Literature 229
11. Acknowledgement 255