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Photographing Papua : representation, colonial encounters and imaging in the public domain / Max Quanchi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Quanchi, Max.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Papuans--Papua New Guinea--History.
- Papuans.
- Ethnology--Papua New Guinea.
- Ethnology.
- Photography in ethnology--Papua New Guinea.
- Photography in ethnology.
- Photography in historiography.
- Photography--Papua New Guinea--History.
- Photography.
- Documentary photography--Papua New Guinea.
- Documentary photography.
- Papua New Guinea--History.
- Papua New Guinea.
- Papua New Guinea--Description and travel.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xx, 369 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Photographing Papua is a study of photography in the public domain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that southeastern New Guinea, known as British New Guinea and then as Papua when it became an Australian colony, was created as a geographical place through visual representation in illustrated magazines and newspapers, lavishly illustrated travelogues and mission hagiography, serial encyclopedia, lantern slides and postcards. Readers :knew"" Papua because many tho...
- Contents:
- pt. I. Introduction
- pt. II. Images, intentions and meanings
- pt. III. Images and dissemination.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [307]-359) and index.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-19057-1
- 9786612190575
- 1-4438-0674-9
- OCLC:
- 827209144
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