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Author Lydon, Jane, 1965- author.

Title Eye contact : photographing indigenous Australians / Jane Lydon
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (xxvi, 303 pages) : illustrations
Series Objects/histories
Objects/histories.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents 1. "This Civilising Experiment": Charles Walter, Missionaries, and Photographic Theater -- 2. Science and Visuality: "Communicating Correct Ideas" -- 3. Time Traps: Defining Aboriginality during the 1870s/1880s -- 4. Works Like a Clock -- 5. Coranderrk Reappears
Summary A historical ethnography of photographs as a colonial tool and as reappropriated by the indigenous population from the 1860s through the 1920s and in the present
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-293) and index
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Subject Photography -- Australia -- History -- 19th century
Aboriginal Australians -- Australia -- Coranderrk Aboriginal Station (Vic.) -- Pictorial works
Kulin people (S21.1) (Vic SI54, SJ54)
Photography.
Art -- Photography -- Photographers.
Race relations -- Representation.
Colonisation -- Theory.
Settlement and contacts -- Government settlements, reserves.
Race relations -- Power relations.
Race relations -- Attitudes.
Government policy -- Initial period and protectionism -- 1851-1900.
Photography -- Ethnographic.
73.01 history of ethnology.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- Historical.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions -- General.
Aboriginal Australians
Photography
Aborigines
Porträtfotografie
Fotografie
Ethnography.
Photography.
Aborigines.
Victoria (Vic.)
Healesville -- Coranderrk (E Vic Yarra Valley SJ55-06)
Australia
Victoria -- Coranderrk Aboriginal Station
Victoria Staat
Australien
Australia.
Aborigines.
Genre/Form History
Pictorial works
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2005011390
ISBN 9780822387251
0822387255