Visions of Nature (eBook)

How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism

Jarrod Hore (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2022
352 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-42049-6 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Inhalt

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.4.2022
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Fotokunst
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft
• ISBN-10: 0-520-42049-7 / 0520420497
• ISBN-13: 978-0-520-42049-6 / 9780520420496