Monica Bravo is Assistant Professor of the History and Theory of Photography in the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University.Carolin Görgen is Associate Professor of American Studies at Sorbonne Université and a junior member of the Institut Universitaire de France.

Interdisciplinary and cutting-edge, Ecologies of Photography in the American West illuminates the powerful nexus between visual culture and environmental history. - Finis Dunaway, Trent University

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionMonica Bravo and Carolin GörgenPart 1: Past Made PresentChapter 1: Rethinking the History of Western American PhotographyMartha A. SandweissChapter 2: Mirrors with a Memory: War, Memory, and the Western LandscapeBinh DanhChapter 3: (Dis)Placing Edward Weston: The Politics of Shutter ReleaseMonica BravoPart 2: Natural Resource ExtractionChapter 4: Missing the Forest for the Trees: Pulp, Pollution, and Landscape Photography in the Pacific NorthwestKatherine MintieChapter 5: Looking at Cows, Reanimating Gelatin: The Biopolitics of Photographic EmulsionAlan C. BraddockChapter 6: The Death of 7000 Songbirds: Photography’s Toxic AffinitiesAlice CazenaveChapter 7: The Nomadic AlchemistAndrés Pardo PicconePart 3: Native SovereigntyChapter 8: Corn Pollen Futures: Photography, Environmental Memory, and Indigenous Sovereignty on the Navajo NationWill Wilson (Diné)Chapter 9: Āina and Accession Photographs of Queen Kapi‘olani and Queen Lili‘uokalaniEmily CornishChapter 10: Bedrock Mortar vs. Photograph: Nevada City Rancheria Nisenan Cosmovision and the Malakoff Hydraulic MineJordan ReznickChapter 11: Everywhere is WestMercedes Dorame (Tongva), with an essay by Emilia MickeviciusPart 4: Against the Classical LandscapeChapter 12: “Mightier than the Pen?” Amateur Photography and the Circulation of Environmental Narratives in California, 1880s–1920sYves FigueiredoChapter 13: Black Gold: Petroleumscapes in Southern California Pictorialism and BeyondCarolin GörgenChapter 14: Documenting “Restless Earth”: John S. Shelton’s Photographs for Geology Illustrated (1966)Jennifer TuckerChapter 15: Arctic Time: Ecology and Photography in the Ice FieldsElizabeth HutchinsonAfterwordRobin E. KelseyNotes on Contributors