Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination

369 Pages·2003·25.649 MB·English

by  Joan M. Schwartz, James R. Ryan

Picturing Place

P I C T U R I N G P L A C E
Photography and the Geographical
Imagination
Edited by Joan M. Schwartz
and James R. Ryan
First Published in 2003 by I.B.Tauris
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Contents
Figures vii
Acknowledgements x
Contributors xii
Introduction: Photography and the Geographical Imagination 1
joan m. schwartz and james r. ryan
19
PART I Picturing Place
1 La Mission Héliographique: Architectural Photography, Collective
Memory and the Patrimony of France, 1851 21
m. christine boyer
2 Retracing the Outlines of Rome: Intertextuality and Imaginative
Geographies in Nineteenth-Century Photographs 55
maria antonella pelizzari
3 Visualizing Eternity: Photographic Constructions of the Grand Canyon 74
david e. nye
4 Family as Place: Family Photograph Albums and the Domestication of
Public and Private Space 96
deborah chambers
115
PART II Framing the Nation
5 Picturing Nations: Landscape Photography and National Identity in
Britain and Germany in the Mid-Nineteenth Century 117
jens jäger
6 Capturing and Losing the ‘Lie of the Land’: Railway Photography and
Colonial Nationalism in Early Twentieth-Century South Africa 141
jeremy foster
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7 Constructing the State, Managing the Corporation, Transforming
the Individual: Photography, Immigration and the Canadian National
Railways, 1925–30 162
brian s. osborne
193
PART III Colonial Encounters
8 Emperors of the Gaze: Photographic Practices and Productions of
Space in Egypt, 1839–1914 195
derek gregory
9 Mapping a Sacred Geography: Photographic Surveys by the Royal
Engineers in the Holy Land, 1864–68 226
kathleen stewart howe
10 Home and Empire: Photographs of British Families in the Lucknow
Album, 1856–57 243
alison blunt
11 Negotiating Spaces: Some Photographic Incidents in the Western
Pacific, 1883–84 261
elizabeth edwards
281
Epilogue
12 Wunderkammer to World Wide Web: Picturing Place in the
Post-Photographic Era 283
william j. mitchell
Notes 305
Index 347
Figures
1.1 Henri Le Secq, ‘View between houses to the portal of the Cathedral’, Laon,
France, 1851. 23
1.2 Gustave Le Gray, ‘La Petite Pierre Couverte’, Bagneaux, France, 1851. 25
1.3 Plate from Arcisse de Caumont, Cours d’Antiquités Monumentales: Atlas
(Paris: 1830–41). 26
1.4 Map from Arcisse de Caumont, Cours d’Antiquités Monumentales: Atlas. 27
1.5 Henri Le Secq, ‘Tower of Kings, Reims Cathedral’, France, 1851. 46
1.6 Édouard Baldus, ‘Cloister of Saint-Trophîme’, Arles, France, 1851. 48
1.7 Gustave Le Gray and O. Mestral, ‘Ramparts and corner tower’, Carcassonne,
France, 1851. 49
1.8 Gustave Le Gray, ‘Cloister of the Abbey Church of Saint-Pierre’, Moissac,
France, 1851. 50
2.1 Charles Scrase Spencer Dickins, ‘Church of Trinità dei Monti from the top of
the Hotel Europa’, Rome, 11 November 1856. 58
2.2 Charles Scrase Spencer Dickins, ‘Upper part of the Scala di Spagna and the Villa
Medici from the third floor of the Hotel Europa’, Rome, 17 December 1856. 60
2.3 Charles Scrase Spencer Dickins, ‘Panoramic view from the Pincian Hill’, Rome,
1856–57. 61
2.4 Unidentified photographer, ‘View of the Roman Forum from the Capitol Hill’,
Rome, c. 1870s. 64
2.5 Unidentified photographer, ‘Claudian Aqueduct’, Rome, c. 1870–80. 66
2.6 Fratelli Alinari, ‘The Fountain of Villa Medici on the Pincian Hill’, Rome,
from Transformations: or, The Romance of Monte Beni, 1868. 69
2.7 Unidentified photographer, ‘Hilda’s Tower’, Rome, from Transformations: or,
The Romance of Monte Beni, 1868. 70
2.8 Robert Macpherson, ‘Hilda’s Tower’, Rome, 1871. 71
3.1 John K. Hillers, ‘The canyon from the foot of Toroweep Valley’, Grand Canyon,
Arizona, 1871–74. 77
3.2 Kolb Bros, ‘Grand Canyon’, Arizona, c. 1913. 79
3.3 Detroit Photographic Co., ‘Fog effects near Hotel El Tovar’, Grand Canyon of
Arizona, 1905. 82
3.4 Keystone View Company, ‘Over all broods a solemn stillness – mists rising from
the primeval deeps’, Grand Canyon National Park, c. 1926. 86
3.5 Martin Parr, ‘Grand Canyon’, Arizona, 1995. 93
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4.1 Chambers family album, East Ham, London, 1930s. 100
4.2 Popkin family album, ‘Wedding Day’, London, 1950. 102
4.3 Chambers family album, ‘Father and child and Statue of Liberty’, 1956. 102
4.4 Chambers family album, ‘1950s suburban home’, Washington, DC, 1956. 104
4.5 Chambers family album, ‘Family car in the suburbs’, Washington, DC,
1956. 104
4.6 Chambers family album, ‘Mother and child feeding ducks in the park’,
Washington, 1957. 106
5.1 Benjamin Brecknell Turner, ‘Bredicot Court’, Worcestershire, April 1852–54. 127
5.2 Philip H. Delamotte and Joseph Cundall, ‘Fountains Abbey’, from A Photographic
Tour Among the Abbeys of Yorkshire, 1852. 128
5.3 W. H. Nicholl, ‘Crwmlyn Viaduct’, Monmouthshire, 8 August 1854. 130
5.4 Friedrich Raps, ‘Photographisches Gedenkblatt auf das Dombaufest am
15 Oktober 1863’. 134
5.5 Hermann Krone, ‘Prebischkegel’, Elbsandsteingebirge, Saxony, 1853–54. 136
6.1 Unidentified photographer, ‘Mountain, Wood and Stream – Scene on the
Groote River, near Knysna’, from SAR&H Magazine, 1924. 151
6.2 Unidentified photographer, ‘The veld’, from SAR&H Magazine, 1925. 152
6.3 M. Edward and Tromp van Diggelen, ‘Rocks, Bush and Beauty’, from SAR & H
Magazine, 1920. 154
6.4 Unidentified photographer, ‘Through the “Little Karoo” known as the
Aangenaam Valley’, c. 1920. 156
6.5 Unidentified photographer, ‘Snow on the Hex River Mountains Photographed
from passing train’, from SAR&H Magazine, 1922. 157
6.6 Fred H. Yeo, ‘Three Johannesburg Sunsets’, from SAR&H Magazine, 1921. 158
7.1 William James Topley, ‘Germans’, Quebec City, 1911. 165
7.2 Unidentified photographer, CNR photograph-dossier: Head of Family: Stefan
Waskiewicz, Alberta. 167
7.3 Canadian immigration, 1852–1982. 171
7.4 Unidentified photographer, ‘Typical garments of the youth of rural Hungary’,
from Canadian Geographical Journal, 1931. 175
7.5 John Woodruff, ‘Pure Russian, Jew, German’, 1908. 180
7.6 Unidentified photographer, ‘Some Types of the New-Comers’, from Canadian
Courier, 1910. 181
7.7 Unidentified photographer, ‘CNR Community Progress Competition Judges’,
c. 1930. 187
7.8 Unidentified photographer, CNR photograph-dossier: Head of Family: Jan Klopot-
Makarczuk: Sergiej Klopot-Makarczuk, Saskatchewan. 188
7.9 Unidentified photographer, CNR photograph-dossier: Head of Family:
Ignaty Zadorozny, Saskatchewan. 190
8.1 Maxime Du Camp, ‘Cour des Bubastites et entrée principale de la salle
hypostyle, palais de Karnak, Thèbes’, from Égypte, Nubie, Palestine et Syrie, 1852. 203
8.2 Donald Sladen, ‘The Sûk-en-Nahassin, the most beautiful, romantic and
medieval street in Cairo’, from Oriental Cairo, 1911. 221
Figures ix
9.1 James McDonald, ‘Members of the Sinai Survey’, 1868. 227
9.2 James McDonald, ‘Ecce Homo Arch’, 1864. 233
9.3 Title page from Ordnance Survey of the Peninsula of Sinai, 1869. 235
9.4 James McDonald, ‘Entering the Desert by Ayún Músa (Wells of Moses)’, 1868. 236
9.5 James McDonald, ‘View from Wady Ed-Deir’, 1868. 237
9.6 James McDonald, ‘Camp in Wady Ed-Deir’, 1868. 238
9.7 Unidentified photographer, stereoscopic view of model of Jebal Musa, 1869. 240
10.1 Ahmad Ali Khan, ‘Lieutenant and Mrs Lewin’, Lucknow, 1856–57. 247
10.2 Ahmad Ali Khan, ‘The Ommanney family, Mrs Kirk, and Miss White’,
Lucknow, 1856–57. 248
10.3 Ahmad Ali Khan, ‘Mrs Kirk and her three daughters’, Lucknow, 1856–57. 249
10.4 Ahmad Ali Khan, ‘Postmortem portrait of the daughter of Captain and
Mrs Hayes’, Lucknow, 1856–57. 253
10.5 Ahmad Ali Khan, ‘Hoosainabad Imambara’, Lucknow, 1856–57. 259
11.1 Captain W. A. D. Acland, ‘Fernwood figures’, Ambrym, New Hebrides, 1884? 267
11.2 Captain W. A. D. Acland, ‘Beach scene’, at Malakula, New Hebrides, 1884? 268
11.3 Captain W. A. D. Acland, ‘Beach scene’, at Malakula, New Hebrides’, 1884? 269
11.4 Captain W. A. D. Acland, ‘Tableau vivant’, Ravenga, Efate, New Hebrides, 1884? 271
11.5 Captain W. A. D. Acland, ‘Mauga Manuma and supporters on the quarterdeck
of HMS Miranda’, off Pago Pago, Tutuila, Samoa, 18 November 1883. 274
11.6 Captain W. A. D. Acland, ‘Mauga Lei and supporters on the quarterdeck of
HMS Miranda’, off Pago Pago, Tutuila, Samoa, 18 November 1883. 275
12.1 Image by Takehiko Nagakura and Haldane Liew, computer-synthesized
interior view of Giuseppe Terragni’s unbuilt design for the Danteum. 292
12.2 Image by Shinsuke Baba and Takehiko Nagakura, produced by Takehiko
Nagakura, computer-synthesized view of Le Corbusier’s unrealized project
for the Palace of the Soviets. 294
12.3 Image by Franco Vairani, Xun Chen, Takehiko Nagakura and Hsu-Yuan Kuo,
produced by Takehiko Nagakura, computer-synthesized view of the interior of
Le Corbusier’s unfinished church at Firminy. 295
12.4 Image by Andrej Zarzycki, Takehiko Nagakura, Dan Brick and Mark Sich,
produced by Takehiko Nagakura, computer-synthesized image of Vladimir
Tatlin’s unrealized St Petersburg tower project (Monument to the Third
International) digitally inserted into a photographic image of the present-day
city. 296
table 7.1 Families settled by the CNR under the Railways Agreement 184