Underwater lives: humans, species, ocean

"Exploring relations between humans, marine species and oceans as captured in the biographical writings, art and photography of divers, sea-species biographers and underwater photographers over the last hundred years, Underwater Lives takes a deep dive beneath the surface to reveal what they can tell us about this increasingly endangered world. Reading texts and images together, Clare Brant employs life writings to investigate how literary conventions operate underwater, how visual conventions shape what we see, how literature partners with other arts to convey ocean life and what underwater life writings have to say about the entangled politics of human relations with ocean lives"--