Book ID: CBB045823423

Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism (2022)

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Jarrod Hore (Author)


University of California Press


Publication Date: 2022
Physical Details: 352
Language: English

Visions of Nature revives the work of late nineteenth-century landscape photographers who shaped the environmental attitudes of settlers in the colonies of the Tasman World and in California. Despite having little association with one another, these photographers developed remarkably similar visions of nature. They rode a wave of interest in wilderness imagery and made pictures that were hung in settler drawing rooms, perused in albums, projected in theaters, and re-created on vacations. In both the American West and the Tasman World, landscape photography fed into settler belonging and produced new ways of thinking about territory and history. During this key period of settler revolution, a generation of photographers came to associate “nature” with remoteness, antiquity, and emptiness, a perspective that disguised the realities of Indigenous presence and reinforced colonial fantasies of environmental abundance. This book lifts the work of these photographers out of their provincial contexts and repositions it within a new comparative frame.

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Authors & Contributors
Katie Holmes
Sweeney, Kevin Z.
Paviour-Smith, Martin
Carter, Mark T.
Margo Neale
Rodney S. Tucker
Concepts
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Nature and its relationship to culture; human-nature relationships
Settler colonialism
Environmental management
Landscape; landscapes
Science and society
Time Periods
19th century
20th century, early
20th century
Modern
21st century
18th century
Places
Australia
New Zealand
United States
Torres Strait
Sydney (Australia)
Micronesia
Institutions
Grampians National Park
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