Capturing Extraction
Geology, Photography, Industry and Institutional History in the Bingley Archive
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4812909 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rebecca Jarman (0000-0002-9332-5634, University of Leeds UK, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 44 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 198-219 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of Latin American Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0261-3050 • E-ISSN: 1470-9856 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/blar.70003 |
| OpenAlex | W4409691618 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 18 |
Godfrey Bingley was a British industrialist who took up geology, photography and travel in the 1880s. His photographs are housed at the University of Leeds, where he worked with its Chair of Geology. This article analyses the archive's projection of the imperial geological imaginary that emanated from Britain and extended to the Americas. It argues that these images mediate multitemporal scales, from the deep time of geology to the contractions of industrial development, enabled by the extractivist practices that photographic technology erased from history. It also demonstrates that practices of rephotographing Bingley's collection conjure these erasures as spectres of Empire
Archaeology · Art · Photography · Visual arts · Archaeological Research and Protection · History · Oral History, Memory, Narrative Analysis · Photography and Visual Culture · Geology
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |