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2006

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Lydon Jane Lydon

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Duke University Press

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2006

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Duke University Press

Date de parution

25 janvier 2006

EAN13

9780822387251

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

11 Mo

An indigenous reservation in the colony of Victoria, Australia, the Coranderrk Aboriginal Station was a major site of cross-cultural contact the mid-nineteenth century and early twentieth. Coranderrk was located just outside Melbourne, and from its opening in the 1860s the colonial government commissioned many photographs of its Aboriginal residents. The photographs taken at Coranderrk Station circulated across the western world; they were mounted in exhibition displays and classified among other ethnographic "data" within museum collections. The immense Coranderrk photographic archive is the subject of this detailed, richly illustrated examination of the role of visual imagery in the colonial project. Offering close readings of the photographs in the context of Australian history and nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century photographic practice, Jane Lydon reveals how western society came to understand Aboriginal people through these images. At the same time, she demonstrates that the photos were not solely a tool of colonial exploitation. The residents of Coranderrk had a sophisticated understanding of how they were portrayed, and they became adept at manipulating their representations.Lydon shows how the photographic portrayals of the Aboriginal residents of Coranderrk changed over time, reflecting various ideas of the colonial mission-from humanitarianism to control to assimilation. In the early twentieth century, the images were used on stereotypical postcards circulated among the white population, showing what appeared to be compliant, transformed Aboriginal subjects. The station closed in 1924 and disappeared from public view until it was rediscovered by scholars years later. Aboriginal Australians purchased the station in 1998, and, as Lydon describes, today they are using the Coranderrk photographic archive in new ways, to identify family members and tell stories of their own.

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Publié par

Duke University Press

Date de parution

25 janvier 2006

EAN13

9780822387251

Langue

English

Poids de l'ouvrage

11 Mo

EYE CONTACT

O B J E C T S / H I S T O R I E S

C R I T I C A L P E R S P E C T I V E S O N A RT, M AT E R I A L C U LT U R E ,

A N D R E P R E S E N TAT I O N

A S E R I E S E D I T E D B Y N I C H O L A S T H O M A S

Published with the assistance of the Getty Foundation

EYE

CONTACT

P H O T O G R A P H I N G I N D I G E N O U S A U S T R A L I A N S

J A N E LY D O N

D U K E U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S Durham and London 

A L L R I G H T S R E S E R V E D

P R I N T E D I N H O N G K O N G

O N A C I D - F R E E PA P E R

D E S I G N E D B Y A M Y R U T H B U C H A N A N

T Y P E S E T I N D A N T E B Y T S E N G

I N F O R M AT I O N S Y S T E M S , I N C .

L I B R A R Y O F C O N G R E S S C ATA L O G I N G -

I N - P U B L I C AT I O N D ATA A P P E A R O N T H E

L A S T P R I N T E D PA G E O F T H I S B O O K .

For my mother

CONTENTS

Preface

xiii

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

 Works Like a Clock

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Bibliography

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List of Illustrations

xxv

Introduction: Colonialism, Photography, Mimesis

 Time Traps: Deﬁning Aboriginality during the s–s

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 Science and Visuality: ‘‘Communicating Correct Ideas’’

 ‘‘This Civilising Experiment’’: Charles Walter, Missionaries, and Photographic Theater 

Epilogue

Notes

 Coranderrk Reappears

Acknowledgments

Index

M A P

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

. The Aboriginal clans of Victoria prior to invasion.

F I G U R E S

xvi

. Douglas T. Kilburn,Untitled[group of Victorian Aborigines]. xv .Group of Civilized Blacks. xviii .A Bush Photograph.  .Deputation of Victorian Aborigines at the Governor’s Levee.  .The Aboriginal Settlement at Coranderrk—from a Photograph by Charles Walter.  .Mr John Green[from a photograph by Charles Walter].  .Simon.  .Ellen.  .Old King.  .Mi Mi.  .Grog in the Camp.  . Charles Walter,Front View of the Coranderrk Aboriginal Village.  . Charles Walter, detail of panorama, possum skin rug and clothing drying over fence. 

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