The wilderness diary: sentimental attachments, gender, and the domestication of environmental politics in Australian landscape photography of the 1980s and 1990s

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    Abstract

    Gendered meanings, particularly around sentiment and attachment, shape hierarchies of value that organize our understandings of the creation, reproduction, and circulation of landscape photography. To explore these ideas, this article considers Australian wilderness diaries and calendars, which began to emerge in the late 1970s. Popular landscape photography is often derided as merely showing pristine, repetitive scenes: technically perfect shots of sunsets or snowy mountain peaks. Such images in mass-market print culture have been critiqued for presenting wilderness as separate from human intervention. Yet despite their limitations, diaries and calendars, as they move into gendered domestic spaces, do important work. Images of wilderness in everyday use provoke the question of how sentimental attachments toward landscapes might prompt environmental awareness and action.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)95-119
    Number of pages25
    JournalFeminist Media Histories
    Volume6
    Issue number2
    DOIs
    Publication statusPublished - 2020

    Keywords

    • photography
    • gender
    • environment
    • domestic
    • landscape
    • politics of sentiment
    • environmental politics
    • material culture
    • Australian photography
    • landscape photography
    • wilderness calendar
    • sentimental attachments
    • domestic space

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