Eye Contact - Photographing Indigenous Australians

Informationen zum Autor Jane Lydon is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies at Monash University in Melbourne. She is the author of Many Inventions: The Chinese in the Rocks, 1890–1930 and a coeditor of Object Lessons: Archaeology and Heritage in Australia (forthcoming). Klappentext A historical ethnography of photographs as a colonial tool and as reappropriated by the indigenous population from the 1860s through the 1920s and in the present. Zusammenfassung The photographs of Aborginal people taken at Coranderrk Station were circulated across the western world; they were mounted in exhibition displays and classified among other ethnographic "data" within museum collections. This book reveals how western society came to understand Aboriginal people through these images. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations ix Preface xiii Acknowledgments xxv Introduction: Colonialism, Photography, Mimesis 1 1. "This Civilising Experiment": Charles Walter, Missionaries, and Photographic Theater 33 2. Science and Visuality: "Communicating Correct Ideas" 73 3. Time Traps: Defining Aboriginality during the 1870s–1880s 122 4. Works Like a Clock 176 5. Coranderrk Reappears 214 Epilogue 248 Notes 253 Bibliography 271 Index 295

Product details

• Authors: Jane Lydon, Lydon, Jane Lydon
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 25.01.2006
• EAN: 9780822335597
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3559-7
• No. of pages: 336
• Dimensions: 171 mm x 241 mm x 25 mm
• Series: Objects/Histories; Objects/Histories: Critical Pe; Objects/Histories; Objects/Histories: Critical Pe
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous