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Photographing Papua : representation, colonial encounters and imaging in the public domain /
Photographing Papua is a study of photography in the public domain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that southeastern New Guinea, known as British New Guinea and then as Papua when it became an Australian colony, was created as a geographical place through visual repre...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Newcastle :
Cambridge Scholars Pub.,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Photographing Papua is a study of photography in the public domain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that southeastern New Guinea, known as British New Guinea and then as Papua when it became an Australian colony, was created as a geographical place through visual representation in illustrated magazines and newspapers, lavishly illustrated travelogues and mission hagiography, serial encyclopedia, lantern slides and postcards. Readers :knew"" Papua because many tho ... |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xx, 369 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-359) and index. |
| ISBN: | 1847182887 9781847182883 9781443806749 1443806749 |