Jane Lydon

Eye Contact

Photographing Indigenous Australians

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Produktbeschreibung

"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"

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Januar 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 255mm x 167mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 803g
• ISBN-13: 9780822335726
• ISBN-10: 0822335727
• Artikelnr.: 21411457

Autorenporträt

Jane Lydon

Inhaltsangabe

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