Review: Manufacturing National Park Nature: Photography, Ecology and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper
By J. Keri Cronin
Cronin, J. Keri. Manufacturing National Park Nature: Photography, Ecology and the Wilderness Industry of Jasper. Vancouver, BC: UBC Press, 2011. 201 pp. ISBN: 9780774819084. CAN $29.95, paperback. Recycled, acid-free paper.
J. Keri Cronin's book Manufacturing National Park Nature explores how photographic images of Jasper National Park in Alberta, Canada, particularly tourist photographs, construct notions of "wilderness" and the sorts of encounters with it that visitors to the park expect to have. It is a solid addition to the UBC Press series "Nature …