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Photography's Other Histories /

A collection seeking to rethink photography as a globally disseminated and locally appropriated medium, rather than as one advanced almost exclusively through Western technology and singular photographers.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Peterson, Nicolas (Editor), Pinney, Christopher (Editor)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Durham : Duke University Press, 2003.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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 / Chrisopher Pinney
  • Imagined journeys: the Likoni Ferry photogrpahers of Mombasa, Kenya / Heike Behrend
  • Yoruba photogrpahy: how the Yoruba see themselves / Stephen Sprague.