Photography's other histories / edited by Christopher Pinney and Nicolas Peterson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pinney, Christopher.

Peterson, Nicolas.

Series:

e-Duke books scholarly collection.

Objects/histories.

Objects/histories

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Photography--History.

Photography.

Photography--Social aspects--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 286 pages : illustrations).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Summary:

Moving the critical debate about photography away from its current Euro-American center of gravity, Photography’s Other Histories breaks with the notion that photographic history is best seen as the explosion of a Western technology advanced by the work of singular individuals. This collection presents a radically different account, describing photography as a globally disseminated and locally appropriated medium. Essays firmly grounded in photographic practice—in the actual making of pictures—suggest the extraordinary diversity of nonwestern photography.Richly illustrated with over 100 images, Photography’s Other Histories explores from a variety of regional, cultural, and historical perspectives the role of photography in raising historical consciousness. It includes two first-person pieces by indigenous Australians and one by a Seminole/Muskogee/Dine' artist. Some of the essays analyze representations of colonial subjects—from the limited ways Westerners have depicted Navajos to Japanese photos recording the occupation of Manchuria to the changing "contract" between Aboriginal subjects and photographers. Other essays highlight the visionary quality of much popular photography. Case studies centered in early-twentieth-century Peru and contemporary India, Kenya, and Nigeria chronicle the diverse practices that have flourished in postcolonial societies. Photography’s Other Histories recasts popular photography around the world, as not simply reproducing culture but creating it.Contributors. Michael Aird, Heike Behrend, Jo-Anne Driessens, James Faris, Morris Low, Nicolas Peterson, Christopher Pinney, Roslyn Poignant, Deborah Poole, Stephen Sprague, Hulleah Tsinhnahjinnie, Christopher Wright

Contents:

Introduction: "How the other half..." / Christopher Pinney

1. PERSONAL ARCHIVES

Relating to photographs / Jo-Anne Driessens

Growing up with aborigines / Michael Aird

When is a photograph worth a thousand words? / Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie

2. VISUAL ECONOMIES

The making of professional "savages": from P.T. Barnum (1883) to the Sunday Times (1998) / Roslyn Poignant

Navajo and photography / James Faris

The Japanese colonial eye: science, exploration, and empire / Morris Low

The changing photographic contract: aborigines and image ethics / Nicolas Peterson

Supple bodies: the Papua New Guinea photographs of Captain Francis R. Barton, 1899-1907 / Christopher Wright

3. SELF-FASHIONING AND VERNACULAR MODERNISM

Figueroa Aznar and the Cusco Indigenistas: photography and modernism in early-twentieth-century Peru / Deborah Poole

Notes from the surface of the image: photography, postcolonialism, and vernacular modernism / Chrisopher Pinney

Imagined journeys: the Likoni Ferry phototgrpahers of Mombasa, Kenya / Heike Behrend

Yoruba photogrpahy: how the Yoruba see themselves / Stephen Sprague

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [261]-276) and index.

ISBN:

1-283-06450-2

9786613064509

0-8223-8471-X

OCLC:

191222320