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Title Calling the shots : aboriginal photographies / Jane Lydon, editor and contributor ; contributors, Julie Gough, Sari Braithwaite, Shauna Bostock-Smith, Lawrence Bamblett, Michael Aird, Karen Hughes, Aunty Ellen Trevorrow, Donna Oxenham, Laurie Baymarrwangga and Bentley James.

Publication Info. Canberra, A.C.T. : Aboriginal Studies Press, 2014.

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Edition [US & CA version].
Description 1 online resource
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Note Includes index.
Summary 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 of the former colonies. The result is a fresh perspective on Australia's past, and on present-day Indigenous identities. Rather than telling us what the white photographer saw', Aboriginal photographies focuses upon the interactions between photographer and Indigenous people and the living meanings the photos have today.
Contents 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.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- History -- Pictorial works.
Aboriginal Australians.
Australia.
History.
Genre/Form Pictorial works.
Subject Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs -- Pictorial works.
Families, Aboriginal Australian -- Pictorial works.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Discrimination & Race Relations.
Aboriginal Australians -- Social life and customs.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Minority Studies.
Families, Aboriginal Australian.
HISTORY -- Australia & New Zealand.
Genre/Form History.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Illustrated works.
Illustrated works.
Added Author Lydon, Jane, 1965- editor.
Gough, Julie.
Braithwaite, Sari.
Bostock-Smith, Shauna.
Bamblett, Lawrence.
Aird, Michael, 1963-
Hughes, Karen Elizabeth.
Trevorrow, Ellen.
Oxenham, Donna.
Baymarrwangga, Laurie.
James, Bentley.
ISBN 9781922059604 (electronic book)
1922059609 (electronic book)