Compare and contrast Ansel Adams’ Clearing Winter Storm, Yosemite National Park, California and Chris Steele-Perkins’ Marshall Islands. How do the photographs inspire environmental conservation?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer: The ideal answer should include:
1. Ansel Adams used carefully controlled lighting and a large depth of field to capture the beauty of the natural forms in Yosemite National Park.
2. Adams’ depicts the landscape as a symbol of the transcendent and spiritual qualities of nature in order to encourage the public to support the conservation of the natural environment.
3. Chris Steele-Perkins’s Marshall Islands, however, focuses on the human impact on the environment, especially our role in climate change.
4. Steele-Perkins’ photograph depicts a sea wall made of man-made junk, which is an attempt to hold back the rising tides that threaten the Marshall Islands.
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