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Author Annear, Judy.

Title Portraits of Oceania / [co-ordinating curator & editor, Judy Annear ; exhibition research & assistant curator, Wayne Tunnicliffe ; assistant co-ordinator, Silvia Velez ; photography assistant & copy editor, Robyn Donohue]
Published Sydney, N.S.W. : The Art Gallery of New South Wales, [1997]
©1997

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Description 122 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm
Contents Foreword / Edward Capon -- Introduction / Judy Annear -- Laying ghosts to rest / Brenda L. Croft -- Dignity or degradation : Aboriginal portraits from nineteenth century Australia / Carol Cooper & Alana Harris -- Portraits of Oceania / Paul Fox -- Capture : the politics of Alfred Burton's photography -- Australia -- Aotearoa/New Zealand -- Fiji ; Samoa ; Tonga
Summary Portraits of Oceania is based on a series of photographs by Charles Kerry, Henry King and Paul Foelsche featuring Aboriginal Australians in the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales, augmented by portraits of Maori from New Zealand, and the peoples of Fiji, Samoa, Tonga who were closely connected to the eastern seaboard of Australia in the nineteenth century by commerce and religious enterprises -- cf. Permission to look, p. 5
Portraits of Oceania is drawn from the collection of the Art Gallery of New South Wales and other collections in Australia and New Zealand. It is the first exhibition by an Australian art museum to look at the nature of photographic portraiture of some of the indigenous peoples of Oceania during the first fifty years of photography -- Foreword
Notes Aboriginal content
Catalogue of an exhibition held at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 August - 26 October 1997
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Catalogue of an exhibition held at The Art Gallery of New South Wales, 27 August - 26 October 1997
Subject Art Gallery of New South Wales -- Exhibitions.
Aboriginal Australians in art -- Exhibitions.
Aboriginal Australians -- Portraits -- Exhibitions.
Aboriginal Australians in art -- Exhibitions.
Aboriginal Australians -- Portraits -- Exhibitions.
Australia in art
Fijians -- Portraits -- Exhibitions.
Indigenous peoples -- Pictorial works.
Indigenous peoples -- Portraits.
Indigenous peoples -- Oceania -- Portraits -- Exhibitions.
Maori (New Zealand people) in art.
Maori (New Zealand people) -- Portraits.
Maori (New Zealand people) -- Portraits -- Exhibitions.
Maori (New Zealand people) -- Pictorial works.
Aboriginal Australians -- Pictorial works.
Maori in art -- Exhibitions
Pacific Islanders in art.
Pacific Islanders -- Pictorial works.
Polynesians in art -- Exhibitions.
Portrait photography -- Exhibitions.
Portrait photography -- New Zealand -- Exhibitions.
Portrait photography -- Australia -- Exhibitions.
Portrait photography -- Oceania -- Exhibitions.
Samoans -- Portraits -- Exhibitions.
Tongans -- Portraits -- Exhibitions.
SUBJECT Australia http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021326 -- In art. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011412
New Zealand http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79021322 -- In art. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011412
Oceania http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85093910 -- In art. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2002011412
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs.
Portraits.
Illustrated works.
Author Annear, Judy.
Donohue, Robyn.
Tunnicliffe, Wayne.
Velez, Silvia
Art Gallery of New South Wales.
LC no. 98175401
ISBN 0731310039 (paperback)