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Calling the shots : aboriginal photographies

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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 culture. In Aboriginal photographies contributors investigate the Indigenous significance of engaging with images from each  Read more...

Author(s): Jane Lydon (ed.)
Publisher: Aboriginal Studies Press
Year: 2014

Language: English
Pages: 0
City: Australia.
Tags: Aboriginal Australians Australia History Pictorial works Social life and customs Families Australian SOCIAL SCIENCE Discrimination Race Relations Minority Studies HISTORY New Zealand

Cover
Introduction
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Contributors
Language and style
Chapter 1 Introduction: the photographic encounter Jane Lydon
Visibility and photography: a brief history
Photographs today: Indigenous cultural heritage
Indigenous artists
Notes
TASMANIA
Chapter 2 Forgotten lives --
the first photographs of Tasmanian Aboriginal people Julie Gough
The first photograph
The people who went to Oyster Cove
Control and containment
The visiting Bishop and too little, too late
Notes
Acknowledgments
NEW SOUTH WALES. Chapter 3 Photographing Indigenous people in New South Wales Jane Lydon and Sari Braithwaite with Shauna Bostock-SmithJohn William Lindt (1845-1926): still lives
Links to today
Connecting with the Cowans Shauna Bostock-Smith
Trickery and artifice
Commercial markets
Intimacy and reclamation
Notes
Acknowledgments
Chapter 4 Picture who we are: representations of identity and the appropriation of photographs into Wiradjuri oral history tradition Lawrence Bamblett
Introduction
Appropriating representations
Meaning and identity
Banking identities
Wiradjuri excellence
A bidja
Notes. ConclusionVICTORIA
Chapter 5 Photographing Kooris: photography and exchange in Victoria Jane Lydon
Missionaries and photography: 'Tell Jane I want her likeness'
Notes
Acknowledgments
QUEENSLAND
Portraits of our elders
Chapter 6 Aboriginal people and four early Brisbane photographers Michael Aird
Early Brisbane photographers
John Watson
William Knight
Thomas Bevan
Daniel Marquis
Richard Daintree
The importance of photographs
Notes
SOUTH AUSTRALIA
Chapter 7 Photographing South Australian Indigenous people: 'far more gentlemanly than many' Jane Lydon and Sari Braithwaite. Jackey and Jemima Gunlarnman'The nucleus of the native church': Poonindie Mission
1860s: growing circulation
Ngarrindjeri and Point McLeay Mission
Notes
Acknowledgments
Chapter 8 'It's that reflection': photography as recuperative practice, a Ngarrindjeri perspective Karen Hughes and Aunty Ellen Trevorrow
'The weaving of our stories and our movement in family': Aunty Ellen's album
Queen Ethel
Queen Louisa
'Separated under false pretences': William and Patrick Brown
Uncle Tom's album: remembering a way of life
Aunty Charlotte Richards: a pioneering Ngarrindjeri photographer. Aunty Joyce Kerswell: Keeper of the archive and 'a lady of history' Memory and photographic loss
Conclusion: recuperation and the weaving of our stories through photography
Notes
Acknowledgments
WESTERN AUSTRALIA
Chapter 9 Photographing Aboriginal Australians in West Australia Donna Oxenham
The mission era
A history of West Australian photography
Carte de visite photography
Major collections and holding places for photographic archives in Western Australia
Battye Library of Western Australia
Berndt Museum of Anthropology.