Toxic sublime: Imaging contaminated landscapes

Environmental Communication

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 373-392

  Peeples, Jennifer ^a  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Edward Burtynsky; Environmental Rhetoric; Landscape Photography; Sublime Response; Toxic Sublime

Indexed keywords

EID: 84857323412     PISSN: 17524032     EISSN: 17524040     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/17524032.2011.616516     Document Type: Article

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