Calling the shots : aboriginal photographies / edited by Jane Lydon.

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Lydon, Jane, 1965- editor.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs--Pictorial works.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--History--Pictorial works.

Families, Aboriginal Australian--Pictorial works.

Families, Aboriginal Australian.

History.

Aboriginal Australians--Social life and customs.

Australia.

Genre:

History.

Pictorial works.

Illustrated works.

Physical Description:

xii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Canberra, ACT : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2014.

Summary:

Historically, photographs of Indigenous Australians were often produced in unequal circumstances. Today, however, such images represent a rich cultural heritage for descendants, who see them in distinctive and positive ways. Calling the shots brings together a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers who are using this rich archive to explore Aboriginal history, to identify relatives, and to reclaim culture. It reverses the colonial gaze to focus on the interactions between photographer and Indigenous people - and the living meanings the photos have today. The result is a fresh perspective on Australia's past, and on present-day Indigenous identities. Calling the shots provides Aboriginal-centred perspectives on the photographic process and especially the meaning of photographic archives. It also explores the specific experience of photography within each former colony, providing the first history of photographing Aboriginal people across the country but without imposing a top-down overview. Drawing upon new methods and debates, it examines the active role played by Indigenous people in photography as a process of encounter and exchange. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Introduction: the photographic encounter / Jane Lydon Lydon, Jane 1

Tasmania

Chapter 2 Forgotten lives - the first photographs of Tasmanian Aboriginal people / Julie Gough Gough, Julie 21

New South Wales

Chapter 3 Photographing Indigenous people in New South Wales / Jane Lydon Lydon, Jane, Sari Braithwaite Braithwaite, Sari, Shauna Bostock-Smith Bostock-Smith, Shauna 55

Chapter 4 Picture who we are: representations of identity and the appropriation of photographs into a Wiradjun oral history tradition / Lawrence Bamblett Bamblett, Lawrence 76

Victoria

Chapter 5 Photographing Kooris: photography and exchange in Victoria / Jane Lydon Lydon, Jane 103

Queensland

Chapter 6 Aboriginal people and four early Brisbane photographers / Michael Aird Aird, Michael 133

Chapter 7 Photographing South Australian Indigenous people: 'far more gentlemanly than many' / Jane Lydon Lydon, Jane, Sari Braithwaite Braithwaite, Sari 157

Chapter 8 'It's that reflection': photography as recuperative practice, a Ngarrindjeri perspective / Karen Hughes Hughes, Karen, Aunty Ellen Trevorrow Trevorrow, Aunty Ellen 175

Western Australia

Chapter 9 Photographing Aboriginal Australians in West Australia / Donna Oxenham Oxenham, Donna 207

Northern Territory

Chapter 10 Photographing the outback: the last frontier? / Jane Lydon Lydon, Jane, Sari Braithwaite Braithwaite, Sari 233

Chapter 11 The 'Myalls' ultimatum': photography and Yolrju in Eastern Arnhem Land, 1917 / Laurie Baymarrwangga Baymarrwangga, Laurie, Bentley James James, Bentley, Jane Lydon Lydon, Jane 254.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

1922059595

9781922059598

1922059609

9781922059604

1922059617

9781922059611

1922059625

9781922059628

OCLC:

870331498

Publisher Number:

99963183623