Gallery Talk, Picturing Pollution

Alfred Stieglitz, The Hand of Man, 1902, printed later.

Alfred Stieglitz, The Hand of Man, 1902, printed later. Photogravure. Yale University Art Gallery, Gift of the Doris Bry Trust, Study Collection.

From soot-filled late 19th-century cities to contaminated sites spread across our contemporary landscape, photography has been a constant tool for visualizing the effects of human industries and their byproducts. Join Carl Fuldner, the Marcia Brady Tucker Fellow in the Department of Photography, for a lively conversation around images of polluted landscapes and how they reflect various phases in the history of environmental thought, from the anti-smoke campaigns of early civic reformers to the growth of the environmental movement in the 1960s and contemporary concerns around climate change and environmental justice.



Space is limited. Please meet in the Gallery lobby.