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‘Human activity on a massive scale’: a photo exhibition tackles the climate crisis

The word anthropocene has been proposed to denote an ongoing epoch in which human activity is a primary driving force of geological change. Although the word has caught on like wildfire in a colloquial sense, it was ultimately rejected as a descriptive scientific term, not so much because it was inaccurate but because of disagreements over when exactly it would have started – 1945, marking the unlocking of nuclear power; 1610, which may be the first time human activity affected the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere; 1964, when the so-called Great Acceleration may have begun – or some...

Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene

Second Nature: Photography in the Age of the Anthropocene

The first major exhibition of contemporary photography examining a world changed by human impact brings together an international cohort of 44 artists from six continents

Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University February 26–August 3, 2025

 

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Cantor Exhibit Captures the Sublime Beauty of Man-Made Scars

In the more than two decades since its invention by scientists, the term Anthropocene — used to define our current age in which human activity is a dominating force — has become so sticky, it’s been applied to all manner of disciplines, everything from philosophy to literature, economics to aesthetics.

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A woman carrying a child on a flooded street with water up to her waist