Photographic Georeferencing: The revival of Henry Peabody’s narrated slideshow of the Grand Canyon

Nicholas Bauch
Post-Doctoral Scholar
Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis
Bill Lane Center for the American West
Stanford University

Transcript

1. Photographic Georeferencing: The revival of Henry Peabody’s narrated slideshow of the Grand Canyon Nicholas Bauch Post-Doctoral Scholar Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis Bill Lane Center for the American West Stanford University
2. Who was Henry Peabody?
3. [9] Up to Marble Gorge and Painted Desert, from Desert View
4. [7] Up Grand Canyon, from Zuni Point
7. How to make this happen? 1. Find the station points
9. How to make this happen? 1.  Find the station points 2.  Figure out what you’re looking at in the photos
13. [3] Angel's Gate, Wotan's Throne and Vishnu Temple
14. How to make this happen? 1.  Find the station points 2.  Figure out what you’re looking at in the photos 3.  Find place names that appear in the photos & maps
18. Reading Landscapes
19. “Roughly 2,000 square miles in extent, the Canyon contained no central feature. Its rim was invisible from the river, and vice-versa. All photographers faced the problem of representing the whole on the basis of a selection, but what should they select? What, if anything, made the Canyon meaningful? Why should a tourist seek it out? If one saw it, what had one seen?” - David Nye, 2003 (my emphasis)
20. “[In cartography] the visual aesthetic that results from those accumulated layers of homogenizing categories [point, line, area, size, arrangement, texture] communicates a geography of modernity, universality, detachment, and placelessness. In other words, it is a visual language more commonly used not to portray place, but to erase it.” - Margaret Pearce, 2008
21. [37] Up Canyon to Shiva Temple, from Pt. Sublime (looking east) [38] Down Canyon to Shiva Temple, from Cape Royal (looking west) Shiva&Temple& Shiva&Temple&
22. CAMERA,& CHECK.&
23. THE&TRUEST&INTERPRETATION&OF&LANDSCAPE&POSSIBLE.& WE&SHALL&TRY&TO&ABIDE.&
25. SITE&OF&THE&FALLEN&SPIRE&
26. DAY&2.&&“RED&HERRING&POINT”.&&CHASING&PEABODY’S&GHOSTS.&
27. SHOULD&HAVE&FOLLOWED&THE&RAINBOW& STATION& POINT& RED&HERRING& POINT&
28. UNCERTAINTY&TEMPORARILY&BRIDLED&
29. SLIDE&NO.&3,&IN&CONTEXT&
31. Contact:& & Nicholas&Bauch& nbbauch@stanford.edu& www.nicholasbauch.com& &
33. WE&REUEMERGE&NEW&PEOPLE&
36. STATION&POINT,&OUT&OF&REACH&