Visions of Nature

How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism

Dr. Jarrod Hore (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

352 Seiten

2022
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-38126-1 (ISBN)

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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.

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

Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Dispossession in Focus: Between
Ancestral Ties and Settler Territoriality

1. Six Geobiographies: Senses of Site in the White Settler World
2. Space and the Settler Geographical Imagination: The Survey, the Camera, and the
Problematic of Waste
3. A Clock for Seeing: Revelation and Rupture in Settler Colonial Landscapes
4. Tanga Whakaāhua or, the Man Who Makes the Likenesses: Managing Indigenous Presence in
Colonial Landscapes
5. Colonial Encounter, Epochal Time, and Settler Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century
6. Noble Cities from Primeval Forest: Settler Territoriality on the World Stage
7. Settler Nativity: Nations and Nature into the Twentieth Century

Conclusion: Settler Colonialism, Reconciliation, and the Problems of Place

Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	14.04.2022
Zusatzinfo	53 b-w photographs
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	590 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
ISBN-10	0-520-38126-2 / 0520381262
ISBN-13	978-0-520-38126-1 / 9780520381261
Zustand	Neuware