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This edited volume considers the many ways in which landscape (seen and unseen) is fundamental to place-making, colonial settlement, and identity formation.
List of contents
1. Introduction: Survey Practices Across the Globe
Erin Hyde Nolan and Sophie Junge
Part 1: Landscape, Heritage and the Colonization of Space
2. The Great Game: The Making of Dunhuang as "Heritage" Site in Photography (1900–1945)
Mia Yinxing Liu
3. Historical Topographies: Thomas Johnson Westropp, Antiquarianism, and Cultural Identity
Justin Carville
4. Surveying in the Dutch Colonial Archive: Reproduction, Authorship, and Postcolonial Ownership
Sophie Junge
5. Sammy Baloji: Extractive Landscapes
Lotte Arndt and Sammy Baloji
Part 2: Border Control: From Sea to Shining Sea
6. Colonial Aesthetic or Military Narrative? On the Violence Behind the Foureau-Lamy Saharan Mission (1898–1900)
Samia Henni
7. Claimed, Imagined, Idealized: Survey Photographs from the Northwest Boundary Commission, 1857–1862
Elizabeth Anne Cavaliere
8. Imperial Violence in the Chilean-Argentine Boundary Case of 1902
Matthias Johannes Pfaller Schmid
Part 3: Landscaping: The Cultivation of Environment and Image
9. Annie Lady Brassey’s Photographic Albums and Writings: Botanical Gardens in the Creation of Empire and Place
Nancy Micklewright and Therese O’Malley
10. A Land’s Desire: History, Landscape, and Photography in Ottoman Palestine
Anjuli J. Lebowitz
11. Collective Memory and Landscape: The K.F. Wong Collection in the National Archives of Singapore
Charmaine Toh
Part 4: Sites of Excavation: Unearthing Untold Photographic Histories
12. "Close Your Eyes and Imagine a German": The Alps as a Postmemorial Landscape of Black Europe in Maud Sulter’s Photomontages
Sarah Phillips Casteel
13. Searching for California Hang Trees
Ken Gonzales-Day
Part 5: Practices of Resistance: The Science of Observation
14. The Surveyor’s Gaze: Reconsidering Nineteenth-Century Modalities in Ottoman Visuality
Deniz Türker
15. Witness, Evidence, and the Environmental Archive
Chris Malcolm
16. Terrazo
Pablo López Luz
Epilogue: Land/s
Gohar Dashti
About the author
Sophie Junge is an assistant professor at the Institute of Art History at the University of Zurich.
Erin Hyde Nolan is a visiting assistant professor of art history at Bates College and lecturer at Tufts University.
Summary
This edited volume considers the many ways in which landscape (seen and unseen) is fundamental to place-making, colonial settlement, and identity formation.
