How to Shoot a Geyser and Other Historical Advice about Viewing and Photographing National Park Landscapes

Greenwald examines how visitors’ visual relationships with the national parks were guided by photographs, travel literature, and park infrastructure. By capturing the same monumental and depopulated views with their own cameras, visitors helped create a distinct visual ethic, one that became so firmly entrenched after repeated reenactment that it affects our present visual expectations and environmental perceptions.