《自然的幻象》使19世纪末风景摄影师的作品复活，他们塑造了塔斯曼世界殖民地和加利福尼亚州定居者的环境态度。尽管彼此之间几乎没有联系，但这些摄影师对自然的看法却非常相似。他们掀起了对荒野图像的兴趣浪潮，制作了挂在定居者客厅里的照片，在相册中阅读，在影院放映，并在度假时重新创作。在美国西部和塔斯曼世界，风景摄影融入了定居者的归属感，并产生了思考领土和历史的新方式。在定居者革命的这一关键时期，一代摄影师开始将“自然”与遥远、古老和空虚联系起来，这一视角掩盖了土著存在的现实，强化了对环境丰富的殖民幻想。这本书将这些摄影师的作品从他们的地方背景中提升出来，并在一个新的比较框架中重新定位。
Visions of Nature: How Landscape Photography Shaped Settler Colonialism
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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