I never really thought of Anselm Adam's pictures as colonial gaze. Unitl now:
"Adams assiduously avoided photographing any of the local Miwok who were rarely out of his sight as he worked Yosemite Valley. He filled thousands of human-free negatives with land he knew the Miwok had tended for at least four thousand years. And he knew that the Miwok had been forcibly evicted from Yosemite Valley, as other natives would later be from national parks yet to be created, all in the putative interest of protecting nature from human disturbance."
https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/the-myth-of-a-wilderness-without-humans/