Visions of Nature : How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism / Jarrod Hore.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hore, Jarrod, 1990- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Political aspects--19th century.

Photography.

Settler colonialism--19th century.

Settler colonialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (370 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2022]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Introduction : dispossession in focus : between ancestral ties and settler territoriality

Six geobiographies : senses of site in the white settler world

Space and the settler geographical imagination : the survey, the camera, and the problematic of waste

A clock for seeing : revelation and rupture in settler colonial landscapes

Tanga Whaka-ahua or, the man who makes the likenesses : managing indigenous presence in colonial landscapes

Colonial encounter, epochal time, and settler romanticism in the nineteenth century

Noble cities from primeval rorest : settler territoriality on the world stage

Settler nativity : nations and natures into the twentieth century

Conclusion : settler colonialism, reconciliation, and the problems of place.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

0-520-38127-0

OCLC:

1268121032