Photography's Other Histories

Name: Photography's Other Histories
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ISBN: 9780822331131

ISBN-10: 0822331136

ISBN-13: 9780822331131

Edition: 2003

Authors: Christopher Pinney, Nicolas Peterson

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Moving the critical debate about photography away from its current Euro-American center of gravity, this text breaks with the notion that photographic history is best seen as the explosion of Western technology advanced by the work of singular individuals.

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List price: $27.95
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Duke University Press
Publication date: 4/24/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 296
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.80" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Peterson-Australian National University



Acknowledgments


Introduction: "How the Other Half..."




Personal Archives


Relating to Photographs



Growing Up with Aborigines



When Is a Photograph Worth a Thousand Words?




Visual Economies


The Making of Professional "Savages": From P.T. Barnam (1883) to the Sunday Times (1998)



Navajo and Photography



The Japanese Colonial Eye: Science, Exploration, and Empire



The Changing Photographic Contract: Aborigines and Image Ethics



Supple Bodies: The Papua New Guinea Photographs of Captain Francis R. Barton, 1899-1907




Self-Fashioning and Vernacular Modernism


Figueroa Anznar and the Cusco Indigenistas: Photography and Modernism in Early-Twentieth Century Peru



Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism



Imagined Journeys: The Likoni Ferry Photographers of Mombasa, Kenya



Yoruba Photography: How the Yoruba See Themselves



Works Cited


Contributors


Index