Eye contact : photographing indigenous Australians / Jane Lydon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lydon, Jane, 1965-

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Objects/histories.

Objects/histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--Australia--History--19th century.

Photography.

Aboriginal Australians--Australia--Coranderrk Aboriginal Station (Vic.)--Pictorial works.6.

Aboriginal Australians.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (331 p.)

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A historical ethnography of photographs as a colonial tool and as reappropriated by the indigenous population from the 1860s through the 1920s and in the present.

Contents:

1. "This Civilising Experiment": Charles Walter, Missionaries, and Photographic Theater

2. Science and Visuality: "Communicating Correct Ideas"

3. Time Traps: Defining Aboriginality during the 1870s/1880s

4. Works Like a Clock

5. Coranderrk Reappears.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-293) and index.

ISBN:

9780822387251

0822387255

OCLC:

226067957