Title & Author:

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

Publication:

Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.

Description:

viii, 286 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Series:

Objects/histories

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-276) and index.
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 / Christopher Pinney -- Imagined journeys: the Likoni Ferry photographers of Mombasa, Kenya / Heike Behrend -- Yoruba photography: how the Yoruba see themselves / Stephen Sprague.

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."--Publisher's description

Resources:
ebrary
Table of contents
Table of contents
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ISBN:

0822331268 (cloth ; alk. paper)
9780822331261 (cloth ; alk. paper)
0822331136 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
9780822331131 (pbk. ; alk. paper)

Subject:

Photography History.
Photography Social aspects History.
Photographie Histoire.
Photographie Aspect social Histoire.
Photography Ethnographic.
21.42 history of photographic art.
Photography
Photography Social aspects
Indigenes Volk
Anthropologie
Fotografie
Geschichte
Kongress
Sociale aspecten.
photographs
indigineous histories
cross-cultural research
photography

Form/genre:

Electronic books.
Kongress Saint Lucia (Queensland) 1997.
History

Added entries:

Pinney, Christopher, editor.
Peterson, Nicolas, editor.
Pinney, Christopher
Peterson, Nicolas
Objects/histories.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 232842
Call No.: TR15 .P495 2003
Status: Available