Overview
Nicholas Bauch discusses the making of Enchanting the Desert, a digital monograph based on a slideshow made by commercial photographer Henry G. Peabody between 1899–1930 at the Grand Canyon in Arizona. The project reconstructs Peabody's slideshow in an interactive digital medium, allowing readers to place the slides in a greater geographical context through the web application.
During the spring semester of 2016, Emory University's "MAP IT | Little Dots, Big Ideas" series featured lectures by humanists who are at different stages of their careers and are engaged in cutting-edge digital mapping projects. This lecture also appears in the "Digital Spaces" series, an ongoing collection of interdisciplinary, multimedia projects that deploy digital scholarship in the study of real and imagined geographies.
Presentation
Question and Answer Session
About the Speaker
Nicholas Bauch is assistant professor of GeoHumanities and director of the Experimental Geography Studio at the University of Oklahoma. In addition to Enchanting the Desert, Bauch's works include the forthcoming A Geography of Digestion: Biotechnology and the Kellogg Cereal Enterprise (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2016).
Cover Image Attribution:
The header image is a screenshot from Bauch's presentation. Screenshot by Southern Spaces, September 27, 2016.Recommended Resources
Text
Alexander, Christopher, Sara Ishikawa, and Murray Silverstein. A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. New York: Oxford University Press, 1977.
Baars, Donald L., Rex C. Buchanan, and John R. Charlton. The Canyon Revisited: A Rephotography of the Grand Canyon, 1923/1991. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1994.
Baker, Alan. Geography and History: Bridging the Divide. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Bauch, Nicholas. "A Scapelore Manifesto: Creative Geographical Practice in a Mythless Age." GeoHumanities 1, no. 1 (2015): 103–123.
Bednar, Robert M. "Being Here, Looking There: Mediating Vistas in the National Parks of the Contemporary American West." In Observation Points: The Visual Poetics of National Parks, edited by T. Patin, 1–28. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2012.
Bodenhamer, David J., John Corrigan, and Trevor M. Harris, eds. Deep Maps and Spatial Narratives. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2015.
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Lovell, William H. The Plane Table and Its Use in Surveying. New York: McGraw Publishing Company, 1908.
Matthes, Francois E. "Mapping the Grand Canyon." The Technology Review 7, no. 1 (1905): 1–25.
Murdoch, Jonathan. Post-Structuralist Geography: A Guide to Relational Space. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 2006.
Nye, David E. "Visualizing Eternity: Photographic Constructions of the Grand Canyon." In Picturing Place: Photography and the Geographical Imagination, edited by J. M. Schwartz and J. R. Ryan, 74–95. New York: I.B. Tauris, 2003.
Peabody, Henry G. Glimpses of the Grand Canyon of Arizona. Kansas City: Fred Harvey Publisher, 1900.
Pearce, Margaret Wickens. "Framing the Days: Place and Narrative in Cartography." Cartography and Geographic Information Science 35, no. 1 (2008): 17–32.
Sandweiss, Martha A. Print the Legend: Photography and the American West. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2002.
Thompson, Nato. "In Two Directions: Geography as Art, Art as Geography." In Experimental Geography: Radical Approaches to Landscape, Cartography, and Urbanism, edited by Nato Thompson. New York: Melville House, 2008.
Web
Bauch, Nicholas. Enchanting the Desert: A Pattern Language for the Production of Space. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2016. http://www.enchantingthedesert.com/home.
"Digital Humanities." Stanford Humanities Center. Stanford University. http://shc.stanford.edu/digital-humanities.
National Park Service. "Grand Canyon In Depth Video Series." Grand Canyon National Park. https://www.nps.gov/grca/learn/photosmultimedia/grand-canyon-in-depth.htm.
"Nature, Culture, and History at the Grand Canyon." Arizona State University. http://grandcanyonhistory.clas.asu.edu/index.html.
"Traveling on Fredericksburg Road: 120 Years in 12 Miles." College of Architecture, Construction, and Planning. The University of Texas at San Antonio. http://cacp.utsa.edu/research/traveling-on-fredericksburg-road/.
