Eye Contact : Photographing Indigenous Australians PDF
by Lydon Jane Lydon
Part of the Objects/Histories series
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Lydon shows how the photographic portrayals of the Aboriginal residents of Coranderrk changed over time, reflecting various ideas of the colonial mission-from humanitarianism to control to assimilation. In the early twentieth century, the images were used on stereotypical postcards circulated among the white population, showing what appeared to be compliant, transformed Aboriginal subjects. The station closed in 1924 and disappeared from public view until it was rediscovered by scholars years later. Aboriginal Australians purchased the station in 1998, and, as Lydon describes, today they are using the Coranderrk photographic archive in new ways, to identify family members and tell stories of their own.
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- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:25/01/2006
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- ISBN:9780822387251
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- Format:PDF
- Pages:336 pages
- Publisher:Duke University Press
- Publication Date:25/01/2006
- Category:
- ISBN:9780822387251