Calling the shots : aboriginal photographies

Calling the shots : aboriginal photographies / Jane Lydon, editor and contributor.

Historically, photographs of Indigenous Australians were often produced under unequal and exploitative circumstances. Today, however, such images represent a rich cultural heritage for descendants who can use this rich archive to explore Aboriginal history, to identify relatives, and to reclaim cult...

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Other Authors: Lydon, Jane, 1965- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2014.
Edition:[Australia and New Zealand version].
Subjects:
Aboriginal Australians > Australia > History > Pictorial works.
Aboriginal Australians > Social life and customs > Pictorial works.
Families, Aboriginal Australian > Pictorial works.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Minority Studies.
HISTORY > Australia & New Zealand.
Aboriginal Australians.
Aboriginal Australians > Social life and customs.
Families, Aboriginal Australian.
Australia.
History.
Pictorial works.
Instructional and educational works.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : the photographic encounter / Jane Lydon
  • Tasmania ; Forgotten lives : the first photographs of Tasmanian Aboriginal people / Julie Gough
  • New South Wales ; Photographing Indigenous people in New South Wales / Jane Lydon and Sari Braithwaite with Shauna Bostock-Smith
  • Picture who we are : representations of identity and the appropriation of photographs into Wiradjuri oral history tradition / Lawrence Bamblett
  • Victoria ; Photographing Kooris : photography and exchange in Victoria / Jane Lydon
  • Queensland ; Aboriginal people and four early Brisbane photographers / Michael Aird
  • South Australia ; Photographing South Australian Indigenous people : 'far more gentlemanly than many' / Jane Lydon and Sari Braithwaite
  • 'It's that reflection' : photography as recuperative practice, a Ngarrindjeri perspective / Karen Hughes and Aunty Ellen Trevorrow
  • Western Australia ; Photographing Aboriginal Australians in West Australia / Donna Oxenham
  • Northern Territory ; Photographing the outback : the last frontier? / Jane Lydon and Sari Braithwaite
  • The 'Myalls' ultimatum' : photography and Yolŋu in Eastern Arnhem Land, 1917 / Laurie Baymarrwangga, Bentley James, and Jane Leydon.

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