Burtynsky’s Anthropo(s)cenic Visuality and the Need for a New Tradition of Environmental Justice Landscape Photography

Authors

  • Indigo Kim

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15173/a.v5i1.3989

Abstract

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Published

2025-11-14