Colonial landscape photography
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In the era of fervent settlement activity around the Pacific rim - Australia, New Zealand, California - landscape photographers were key to the colonial exercise, a new book argues.
They showed usually empty landscapes devoid of indigenous people.
They contributed to prospective settlers’ interest in new lands.
And they built an emotional attachment to places.
This all strengthened the settler sense of territorialism.