Date of Award
2006
Document Type
Thesis
Publisher
Edith Cowan University
Degree Name
Bachelor of Communications Honours
Faculty
Faculty of Education and Arts
Abstract
This exegesis examines the significance of salt-affected landscapes in Western Australia's Wheatbelt, particularly sites affected due to pastoral settlement. It explores ways in which landscape imagery has been constructed and controlled by cultures to represent a particular relationship between settlement and the land. A focus on both American and Australian photographic practitioners and their understanding of landscape aesthetics will be incorporated to reveal how unconventional subject matter like dryland salinity can be re-presented to provide an alternative perspective of cultures relationship with nature in the Wheatbelt. Finally, an enquiry into the impact of national identity on landscape will also explore how national fictions from the past affect the present representation of dryland salinity in Western Australia. A book of images representing salt affected landscapes of the Wheatbelt has been completed in conjunction with the exegesis.
Recommended Citation
Currall, G. (2006). The White Death: Representations of salt affected landscapes in the Wheatbelt. Edith Cowan University. https://ro.ecu.edu.au/theses_hons/1190