| Description |
1 online resource. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Photography, history : history, photography
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Photography, history: history, photography.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Map of Australia -- Introduction : photography, humanitarianism, empire -- Blood : the nucleus of the native church -- Veritable apollos : beauty, race and scientists -- Blind spots or bearing witness : antislavery and frontier violence in Australia -- Popularizing anthropology : Elsie Masson and Baldwin Spencer -- A ray of special resemblance : H.G. Wells and colonial embarrassment -- Happy families : UNESCO's human rights exhibition in Australia, 1951. |
| Summary |
With their power to create a sense of proximity and empathy, photographs have long been a crucial means of exchanging ideas between peoples across the globe; this book explores the role of photography in shaping ideas about race and difference from the 1840s to the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights. Focusing on Australian experience in a global context, a rich selection of case studies - drawing on a range of visual genres from portraiture to ethnographic to scientific photographs - show how photographic encounters between Aboriginals, missionaries, scientists, photographers and writers fuelled international debates about morality, law, politics and human rights. Drawing on new archival research, Photography, Humanitarianism, Empire is essential reading for students and scholars of race, visuality and the histories of empire and human rights. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Photography -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History -- 19th century.
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Photography -- Social aspects. |
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Australia. |
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History. |
| Chronological Term |
19th century |
| Subject |
Photography -- Social aspects -- Australia -- History -- 20th century.
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| Chronological Term |
20th century |
| Subject |
Humanitarianism.
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Humanitarianism. |
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National characteristics, Australian.
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National characteristics, Australian. |
| Chronological Term |
1800-1999 |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lydon, Jane, 1965- Photography, humanitarianism, empire. London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2016 9781474235501 1474235506 (DLC) 2016003649 (OCoLC)923562473 |
| ISBN |
9781474235518 (electronic book) |
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1474235514 (electronic book) |
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9781474235501 |
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1474235506 |
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9781474235525 (epub) |
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1474235522 |
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9781474235525 |
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9781350027435 |
| Standard No. |
40026290886 |
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