Pinney / Peterson / Thomas Photography's Other Histories

1. Auflage 2003
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8471-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 295 Seiten

Reihe: Objects/Histories

A collection seeking to rethink photography as a globally disseminated and locally appropriated medium, rather than as one advanced almost exclusively through Western technology and singular photographers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pinney, Christopher

Peterson, Nicolas

Thomas, Nicholas

Weitere Mitwirkende

Driessens, Jo-Anne

Aird, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Fotografie Fotografie: Geschichte und Sammlungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction: “How the Other Half.” / Christopher Pinney 1

1. Personal Archives

Relating to Photographs / Jo-Anne Driessens 17

Growing Up with Aborigines / Michael Aird 23

When Is a Photograph Worth a Thousand Words? / Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie 40

2. Visual Economies

The Making of Professional “Savages”: From P.T. Barnam (1883) to the Sunday Times (1998) / Roslyn Poignant 55

Navajo and Photography / James Faris 85

The Japanese Colonial Eye: Science, Exploration, and Empire / Morris Law 100

The Changing Photographic Contract: Aborigines and Image Ethics / Nicolas Peterson 119

Supple Bodies: The Papua New Guinea Photographs of Captain Francis R. Barton, 1899–1907 / Christopher Wright 146

3. Self-Fashioning and Vernacular Modernism

Figueroa Anznar and the Cusco Indigenistas: Photography and Modernism in Early-Twentieth Century Peru / Deborah Poole 173

Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism / Christopher Pinney 202

Imagined Journeys: The Likoni Ferry Photographers of Mombasa, Kenya / Heike Behrend 221

Yoruba Photography: How the Yoruba See Themselves / Stephen Sprague 240

Works Cited 261

Contributors 277

Index 279

Über Autor(innen)

Christopher Pinney is Reader in Anthropology and Visual Culture at University College London. He is author of Camera Indica: The Social Life of Indian Photographs and coeditor of Pleasure and the Nation and Beyond Aesthetics.Nicolas Peterson is Reader in Anthropology at the Australian National University. He is coeditor of Citizenship and Indigenous Australians: Changing Conceptions and Possibilities.