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Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians
Jane Lydon
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Description for Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians
Paperback. The photographs of Aborgines taken at Coranderrk Station were circulated across the western world and were mounted in exhibition displays and classified among other ethnographic "data" within museum collections. This book reveals how western society came to understand Aboriginal people through these images. Series: Objects/Histories. Num Pages: 336 pages, 88 illus. (including 22 duotones), 1 map. BIC Classification: AJCP; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5969 x 3963 x 22. Weight in Grams: 803.
An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth. Coranderrk was located just outside Melbourne, and from its opening in the 1860s the colonial government commissioned many photographs of its Aboriginal residents. The photographs taken at Coranderrk Station circulated across the western world; they were mounted in exhibition displays and classified among other ethnographic “data” within museum collections. The immense Coranderrk photographic archive is the subject of this detailed, richly illustrated examination of the role of visual imagery in the colonial project. Offering ... Read more
An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth. Coranderrk was located just outside Melbourne, and from its opening in the 1860s the colonial government commissioned many photographs of its Aboriginal residents. The photographs taken at Coranderrk Station circulated across the western world; they were mounted in exhibition displays and classified among other ethnographic “data” within museum collections. The immense Coranderrk photographic archive is the subject of this detailed, richly illustrated examination of the role of visual imagery in the colonial project. Offering ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Duke University Press United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Objects/Histories
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
North Carolina, United States
ISBN
9780822335726
SKU
V9780822335726
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About Jane Lydon
Jane Lydon is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies at Monash University in Melbourne. She is the author of Many Inventions: The Chinese in the Rocks, 1890–1930 and a coeditor of Object Lessons: Archaeology and Heritage in Australia (forthcoming).
Reviews for Eye Contact: Photographing Indigenous Australians
“Jane Lydon’s meticulous investigation of the role of photography in the cross-cultural engagement that took place at Coranderrk from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth century unfolds with a narrative drive. The community at Coranderrk comes alive. We care about the residents, how they have been represented in successive periods, and how their descendants now use the photographs to ... Read more