Workshop 10
61st Annual Convention of the GAAS
Würzburg, June 12-15, 2014
"Shock and awe, beauty and despair - it’s all there"*: Eco-Photography’s Views on the Transnational Landscape
Astrid Böger (Hamburg)
The Farm Security Administration File as Eco-Photographic Archive
John Toohey (Concordia University Montreal)
The Progressive Landscape: Lawrence Engel and the Nevada Photo Service
Antonia Purk (Erfurt)
From the Text to the Photo Book: Jamaica Kinkaid’s Technique of Ekphrasis
Ingrid Gessner (Regensburg)
"We see the surface, but there is something beyond the surface": Recovering Masumi Hayashi’s EPA Superfund Site Photocollages
Dustin Breitenwischer (Freiburg)
Catherine Opie’s American Cities and the Poetics of Being There
Ralph J. Poole (Salzburg)
"and there is grass growing in the parking lots": Urban Ruins and Guerilla Aesthetics
Chairs
Verena Laschinger
Universität Erfurt
Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft
Nordhäuser Str. 63
99089 Erfurt
verena.laschinger@uni-erfurt.de
Eva-Sabine Zehelein
American Studies
University of Regensburg
93040 Regensburg
eva-sabine.zehelein@ur.de
*CIWEM Executive Director Nick Reeves; http://www.ibtimes.com/environmental-photographer-year-2013-winning-shots-1182339
