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Natura e uomo nel progetto fotografico Documerica

2013, 44. "Green Studies": natura, letteratura e ambiente N.5 Nuova Serie

Abstract

The Federal photography project called DOCUMERICA was created by the Environmental Protection Agency in 1971 to capture images relating to environmental problems, EPA activities, and everyday life. The essay traces the events that led to the creation of the project, and the historical and political context that generated it during the Seventies. It also explores some aspects emerged from the analyses of the pictures: the main argument is that the images reflect the struggles, the nostalgia and the changing aesthetics in the context of the massive social, political, and economic shifts of the 1970s.