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Author Quanchi, Max

Title Photographing Papua : representation, colonial encounters and imaging in the public domain / ny Max Quanchi
Published Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xx, 369 pages) : illustrations
Contents pt. I. Introduction -- pt. II. Images, intentions and meanings -- pt. III. Images and dissemination
Summary Photographing Papua is a study of photography in the public domain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It argues that southeastern New Guinea, known as British New Guinea and then as Papua when it became an Australian colony, was created as a geographical place through visual representation in illustrated magazines and newspapers, lavishly illustrated travelogues and mission hagiography, serial encyclopedia, lantern slides and postcards. Readers :knew"" Papua because many tho ..
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-359) and index
Subject Papuans -- Papua New Guinea -- History
Ethnology -- Papua New Guinea.
Photography in ethnology -- Papua New Guinea
Photography in historiography.
Photography -- Papua New Guinea -- History
Documentary photography -- Papua New Guinea
Photographs: collections.
Social & cultural history.
Cultural studies.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Subjects & Themes -- Historical.
Documentary photography
Ethnology
Papuans
Photography
Photography in ethnology
Photography in historiography
Travel
Ethnologie
Dokumentarfotografie
SUBJECT Papua New Guinea -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85097691
Papua New Guinea -- Description and travel
Subject Papua New Guinea
Territorium Papua
Papua-Neuguinea
Papua.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1847182887
9781847182883
9781443806749
1443806749