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Original Articles

The Photographic Construction of Tourist Space in Victorian AmericaFootnote*

Pages 548-570 | Received 21 Apr 2010, Published online: 04 Nov 2019
 

Abstract

Tensions and contradictions surround photographic representations of landscape—and the practices that created those representations—during the medium's so‐called golden age in the late nineteenth century. These are examined by focusing on the landscape views of H. H. Bennett, a photographer of considerable renown whose stereographs and oversized panoramas of the Wisconsin Dells transformed a working river into a picturesque landscape. Such a construction of genteel tourist space in Victorian America suggests a post‐frontier aesthetic in which nature is valued less as an opportunity for progress or an occasion for terror than as pleasing scenery.

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Steven Hoelscher

Dr. Hoelscher is an assistant professor of geography at Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana 70803.

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