Book review: Emily O’Gorman, Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-Than-Human-Histories of the Murray-Darling Basin

whether the photographs afforded legitimacy to boxing and horseracing at a time of cheating scandals, underworld involvement, and fledgling racial integration. Cresswell’s chapter and Ott’s each conclude with speculative interpretations of how aesthetic and moral elements of surveillance mediated by Muybridge’s photography might resonate in our contemporary era through software-mediated surveillance of human mobility. Missing from this conclusion is the focus on a racial politics of mobility that makes the book a welcome addition to the sizeable body of critical scholarship on Muybridge’s photography.