Visions of landscape photography in Palestine and Israel. (3rd July 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Barromi-Perlman, Edna
• Is Part Of: Landscape research. Volume 45:Number 5(2020)
• Page Start: 564
• Page End: 582
• Publication Date: 2020-07-03
• Subjects: Photography -- Palestine -- Israel -- landscape -- Zionism -- appropriation -- colonialism; Landscape -- Periodicals; Land use -- Planning -- Periodicals; 719.05
• DOI: 10.1080/01426397.2019.1704230
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0142-6397

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Landscape photography is a visual construction of nature. Viewing recurrent representations of landscape photographs can contribute to the creation of national and political visual heritages, appropriation, and cultural claims over lands. Thus, landscape photographs serve as mediums for influencing political agendas and ideologies. These ideas are illustrated in this study by analysing European, Palestinian, and Zionist landscape photographs of the Holy Land (Zion/Palestine) from the middle of the nineteenth century and up to contemporary artistic Israeli photography. I contend that landscape photography was employed as a political tool at the hands of European and pre-statehood, Zionist photography for cultural land appropriation in their political struggles, while local Palestinian documentation was absent from this arena.