Landscapes of Despair: Book Covers and the Visual Culture of the Opioid Crisis.
Why does every book about the opioid epidemic have a landscape photograph on the cover? Landscape photography has had a persistent role in media coverage of America's opioid epidemic since at least 2016. This paper explores the phenomenon through analyses of a selection of recent, popular press book...
| Publicado en: | Art Journal Vol. 82; no. 1; pp. 58 - 74 |
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Spring2023
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