The flash of recognition : photography and the emergence of Indigenous rights / Jane Lydon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lydon, Jane.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Aboriginal Australians--Land tenure--Pictorial works.

Aboriginal Australians.

Aboriginal Australians--Social conditions--Pictorial works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (317 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Sydney, N.S.W. : NewSouth, 2012.

Summary:

As a student, Jane Lydon was shocked by the photograph on the cover of Charles Rowley's 1970 classic, The Destruction of Aboriginal Society, which showed two Aboriginal men in neck-chains. In this original and highly illustrated book she uses photography to tell a bigger story of the struggle for Aboriginal rights in Australia. While many of the images are confronting, the book tells the positive story of the way in which photography has been used as a tool for change and to argue for recognition of our shared humanity. Starting at the turn of the twentieth century and continuing to the NT Int

Contents:

""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Author's Note""; ""1. BEARING WITNESS""; ""Visibility""; ""Empathy and me""; ""Bearing witness""; ""Humanitarians, history and photographs""; ""The story""; ""2. BEHOLD THE TEARS""; ""A 'slave state'?""; ""The new slaveries""; ""Scandal""; ""Speaking up in the old country""; ""Ghastly, but ...""; ""''Trophy' photos""; ""Ngarinman meanings""; ""3. A VEIL OF CONVENTION""; ""Forrest River""; ""Forensic evidence""; ""From crime scenes to victims""; ""Coniston""; ""'This place is a disgrace''""; ""Caledon Bay""; ""Perfectly comfortable in their chains""

""7. GATHER ROUND PEOPLE, LET ME TELL YOU A STORY""""Black is beautiful""; ""Documenting the cause""; ""Indigenous documentary""; ""8. Out Of Sight And Out Of Mind?""; ""Cold eels and distant thoughts""; ""Concealment, demonisation or ethical witnessing?""; ""References""; ""Notes""; ""Index""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781742233284

1742233287

OCLC:

818848199