Between 1890 and 1893, two young Americans, Frank Swift Bourns and Dean Conant Worcester, travelled through the central and southern Philippines on a zoological expedition. In addition to collecting animal specimens, the two men took more than one hundred and fifty photographs. These photographs have not been given much attention by historians but they are an important set of images that help expand the understanding of photography in the Philippines in the late Spanish colonial era. This article discusses the circumstances surrounding the making of these images and provides a framework for interpreting their significance by applying the concept of the ‘photographic obsessions’ of Western explorers as defined and described by Willem van Schendel and his colleagues in the book The Chittagong Hill Tracts: Living in a Borderland.

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1898 年之前在菲律宾的美国摄影：1890-1893 年的动物园探险

1890 年至 1893 年间，两名年轻的美国人弗兰克·斯威夫特·伯恩斯和迪恩·科南特·伍斯特在一次动物探险中穿越菲律宾中部和南部。除了收集动物标本，两人还拍了一百五十多张照片。这些照片并没有受到历史学家的太多关注，但它们是一组重要的图像，有助于扩大对西班牙殖民时代晚期菲律宾摄影的理解。本文讨论了围绕这些图像制作的环境，并通过应用威廉·范·申德尔及其同事在《吉大港山丘》一书中定义和描述的西方探险家的“摄影痴迷”概念，提供了一个解释其意义的框架。 : 住在边疆。