Table Of ContentSurvey Practices and Landscape
Photography Across the Globe
This edited volume considers the many ways in which landscape (seen and unseen) is
fundamental to placemaking, colonial settlement, and identity formation. Collectively,
the book’s authors map a constellation of interlocking photographic histories and
survey practices, decentering Europe as the origin of camera-based surveillance.
The volume charts a conversation across continents—connecting Europe, Africa,
the Arab World, Asia, and the Americas. It does not segregate places, histories, and
traditions but rather puts them in dialogue with one another, establishing solidarity
across ever-shifting national, linguistic, racial, religious, and ethnic. Refusing the neat
organization of survey photographs into national or imperial narratives, these essays
celebrate the messy, cross-cultural reverberations of landscape over the past 170 years.
Considering the visual, social, and historical networks in which these images circulate,
this anthology connects the many entangled and political histories of photography
in order to reframe survey practices and the multidimensionality of landscape as an
international phenomenon. This book will be of interest to scholars in art history,
history of photography, and landscape history.
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.
Photography, Place, Environment
Series Editor: Liz Wells
University of Plymouth, UK
Photography, Place, Environment publishes original scholarship and critical thinking
exploring ways in which photography contributes to, or challenges, narratives relating
to geography, environment, landscape and place, historically and now.
International in scope, and innovatory in placing imagery as both the object and
the method of enquiry, the series includes single-authored and edited volumes by new
scholars as well as established names in the feld. By critiquing relationships between
land, aesthetics, culture and photography, the books in this series also foster debates
on photographic methodologies, theory and practices.
Coal Cultures
Picturing Mining Landscapes and Communities
Derrick Price
Landscapes between Then and Now
Recent Histories in Southern African Photography, Performance and Video Art
Nicola Brandt
Photography and Environmental Activism
Visualising the Struggle Against Industrial Pollution
Conohar Scott
Survey Practices and Landscape Photography Across the Globe
Edited by Sophie Junge and Erin Hyde Nolan
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Survey Practices and Landscape
Photography Across the Globe
Edited by Sophie Junge and Erin Hyde Nolan
Cover image: Gohar Dashti, “Untitled #1” from the series “Land/s” / 2019 /
Courtesy of the artist.
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Contents
List of Figures viii
List of Contributors xiii
Acknowledgements xviii
1 Introduction: Survey Practices Across the Globe 1
ERIN HYDE NOLAN AND SOPHIE JUNGE
PART 1
Landscape, Heritage, and the Colonization of Space 15
2 The Great Game: The Making of Dunhuang as “Heritage” Site in
Photography (1900–1945) 17
MIA YINXING LIU
3 Historical Topographies: Thomas Johnson Westropp,
Antiquarianism, and Cultural Identity 42
JUSTIN CARVILLE
4 Surveying in the Dutch Colonial Archive: Reproduction, Authorship,
and Postcolonial Ownership 64
SOPHIE JUNGE
5 Sammy Baloji: Extractive Landscapes 83
LOTTE ARNDT AND SAMMY BALOJI
PART 2
Border Control: From Sea to Shining Sea 87
6 Colonial Aesthetic or Military Narrative? On the Violence Behind the
Foureau-Lamy Saharan Mission (1898–1900) 89
SAMIA HENNI
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7 Claimed, Imagined, Idealized: Survey Photographs from the
Northwest Boundary Commission, 1857–1862 106
ELIZABETH ANNE CAVALIERE
8 Imperial Violence in the Chilean-Argentine Boundary Case of 1902 138
MATTHIAS JOHANNES PFALLER SCHMID
PART 3
Landscaping: The Cultivation of Environment and Image 155
9 Annie Lady Brassey’s Photographic Albums and Writings: Botanical
Gardens in the Creation of Empire and Place 157
NANCY MICKLEWRIGHT AND THERESE O’MALLEY
10 A Land’s Desire: History, Landscape, and Photography in
Ottoman Palestine 189
ANJULI J. LEBOWITZ
11 Collective Memory and Landscape: The K.F. Wong Collection in the
National Archives of Singapore 210
CHARMAINE TOH
PART 4
Sites of Excavation: Unearthing Untold Photographic Histories 229
12 “Close Your Eyes and Imagine a German”: The Alps as a
Postmemorial Landscape of Black Europe in Maud
Sulter’s Photomontages 231
SARAH PHILLIPS CASTEEL
13 Searching for California Hang Trees 251
KEN GONZALES-DAY
PART 5
Practices of Resistance: The Science of Observation 255
14 The Surveyor’s Gaze: Reconsidering Nineteenth-Century Modalities
in Ottoman Visuality 257
DENIZ TÜRKER
15 Witness, Evidence, and the Environmental Archive 280
CHRIS MALCOLM
Contents vii
16 Terrazo 299
PABLO LÓPEZ LUZ
17 Epilogue: Land/s 302
GOHAR DASHTI
Index 305
Figures
1.1 Picturing Power: Wherein one, in the name of knowledge, measures
everything, gives it a name and publicises this, thereby claiming it. 2
2.1 Cave 46, northwestern corner. 25
2.2 Mission Pelliot Touen-Houang IV Academy of Dunhuang:
Cave n°046; Paul Pelliot: Cave n°120f. 26
2.3 a–e Photos of Yungang Cave 3, published in Mizuno Seiichi and
Nagahiro Toshio, Yun-Kang, Kyoto: Humanities and Science
Research Institute at Kyoto University, 1951–1956, vol. 3. 31
2.4 Photograph, Cave 169 of Mogao. 33
2.5 Cave 158, sculpture of Nirvana Buddha, west wall. 33
2.6 Mission Pelliot Touen-Houang IV Academy of Dunhuang:
Cave n°046; Paul Pelliot: Cave n°120f. 34
2.7 Photography print, Cave 328 of Mogao. 35
2.8 Cave 16, entranceway, north wall, opening to the hidden library. 37
3.1 Album Vol. IV. 43
3.2 Album Vol. I. 46
3.3 Album Vol. I, 1898, “Breastagh-Ogham of the son of Carbry Son
of Awley—Probably 5th Cent.” 49
3.4 “Fenagh,” Kilronan Album. 52
3.5 Album Vol. I. 53
3.6 Album Vol. VII. 56
3.7 Album Vol. IV. 57
4.1 Photograph on gallery wall showing the Red Bridge, Siola
Surabaya Museum, Surabaya. 71
4.2 Het Stadhuis van Batavia. 73
4.3 Session of the “Landraad”, a law court for indigenous afairs, in
Pati presided by the Resident P. W. A. van Spall, Central Java. 73
4.4 Screenshot of a Facebook post from Surabaya Tempo Dulu +. 76
5.1 Mine à ciel ouvert noyée de Banfora #2, Lieu d’extraction minière
artisanale (Flooded open-cast mine in Banfora #2, site of
manual extraction). 84
5.2 Sammy Baloji: Extractive Landscapes. Exhibition View.
Museumspavillon, Salzburg, Austria, July 25–August 17, 2019
(curated by Lotte Arndt and Simone Rudolph). 85
