Visions of Nature

How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism

AvJarrod Hore

Häftad, Engelska, 2022

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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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Utgivningsdatum:2022-04-19
Mått:152 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:590 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:University of California Press
Antal sidor:352
Förlag:University of California Press
ISBN:9780520381261

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Jarrod Hore is an environmental historian and Co-Director of the New Earth Histories Research Program at University of New South Wales, Sydney.

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"Visions of Nature… is a rigorous and broad-ranging exploration that spans the highly local to the constructed ‘global’ and offers its readers new threads and connections to follow."

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ContentsList of IllustrationsAcknowledgments Introduction: Dispossession in Focus: BetweenAncestral Ties and Settler Territoriality1. Six Geobiographies: Senses of Site in the White Settler World2. Space and the Settler Geographical Imagination: The Survey, the Camera, and the Problematic of Waste3. A Clock for Seeing: Revelation and Rupture in Settler Colonial Landscapes4. Tanga Whakaāhua or, the Man Who Makes the Likenesses: Managing Indigenous Presence inColonial Landscapes5. Colonial Encounter, Epochal Time, and Settler Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century6. Noble Cities from Primeval Forest: Settler Territoriality on the World Stage7. Settler Nativity: Nations and Nature into the Twentieth CenturyConclusion: Settler Colonialism, Reconciliation, and the Problems of PlaceNotesBibliographyIndex