Eye Contact - Photographing Indigenous Australians

Informationen zum Autor Jane Lydon Klappentext "What makes this study especially rich and important is the way Jane Lydon takes full advantage of photographic theory without imposing it reductively or simplistically. This is particularly impressive because she shows in very nuanced ways that different photographs were produced for different reasons at different times and that these photos embody various ideas about Aboriginality and science."--David Prochaska, coauthor of "Beyond East and West: Seven Transnational Artists" Zusammenfassung The photographs of Aborgines taken at Coranderrk Station were circulated across the western world and 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
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 25.01.2006
• EAN: 9780822335726
• ISBN: 978-0-8223-3572-6
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 235 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