Eye contact: photographing indigenous Australians
by Lydon, Jane
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.
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- Full title :Eye contact : photographing indigenous Australians / Jane Lydon.
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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.
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- Publication Date:2005.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Duke University Press
- Place of Publication:Durham
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2005.
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Description based upon print version of record.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (331 p.).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0822387255, 9780822387251
- DOI:10.1515/9780822387251
- oclc:on1136356074
- LC Classification:TR121
- Dewey Decimal:779/.9994/0049915
Table of Contents
1. "This Civilising Experiment": Charles Walter, Missionaries, and Photographic Theater -- 2. Science and Visuality: "Communicating Correct Ideas" -- 3. Time Traps: Defining Aboriginality during the 1870s/1880s -- 4. Works Like a Clock -- 5. Coranderrk Reappears.
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