Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images. By Finis Dunaway.
Seeing Green: The Use and Abuse of American Environmental Images . By Finis Dunaway. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015. viii + 337 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliographical notes, index. $40.00, £28.00.)

While a picture may be worth a thousand words, it is often what is not pictured that matters in Finis Dunaway’s excellent Seeing Green . Dunaway analyzes dozens of what he calls “icons of American environmentalism” to assess their impact on the movement and to identify what is missing from them, showing how these visual omissions have hobbled the environmentalist cause. While “media images have made the environmental crisis visible to a mass public,” argues Dunaway, “they often have masked systemic causes and ignored structural inequalities” (p. 2).

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