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Title Photography's other histories / edited by Christopher Pinney and Nicolas Peterson
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2003

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 286 pages) : illustrations
Series Objects/histories
Objects/histories.
e-Duke books scholarly collection.
Contents Introduction: "How the other half ..." / Christopher Pinney -- 1. PERSONAL ARCHIVES -- Relating to photographs / Jo-Anne Driessens -- Growing up with aborigines / Michael Aird -- When is a photograph worth a thousand words? / Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie -- 2. VISUAL ECONOMIES -- The making of professional "savages": from P.T. Barnum (1883) to the Sunday Times (1998) / Roslyn Poignant -- Navajo and photography / James Faris -- The Japanese colonial eye: science, exploration, and empire / Morris Low -- The changing photographic contract: aborigines and image ethics / Nicolas Peterson -- Supple bodies: the Papua New Guinea photographs of Captain Francis R. Barton, 1899-1907 / Christopher Wright -- 3. SELF-FASHIONING AND VERNACULAR MODERNISM -- Figueroa Aznar and the Cusco Indigenistas: photography and modernism in early-twentieth-century Peru / Deborah Poole -- Notes from the surface of the image: photography, postcolonialism, and vernacular modernism / Chrisopher Pinney -- Imagined journeys: the Likoni Ferry photogrpahers of Mombasa, Kenya / Heike Behrend -- Yoruba photogrpahy: how the Yoruba see themselves / Stephen Sprague
Summary A collection seeking to rethink photography as a globally disseminated and locally appropriated medium, rather than as one advanced almost exclusively through Western technology and singular photographers
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-276) and index
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Subject Photography -- History
Photography -- Social aspects -- History
Photography -- Ethnographic
21.42 history of photographic art.
COMPUTERS -- Digital Media -- Photography.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- Reference.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Imaging Systems.
PHOTOGRAPHY -- History.
Photography
Photography -- Social aspects
Indigenes Volk
Anthropologie
Fotografie
Geschichte
Kongress
Fotografie.
Sociale aspecten.
Photography -- History.
Photography -- Social aspects -- History.
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Pinney, Christopher, editor.
Peterson, Nicolas, editor.
ISBN 9780822384717
082238471X
1283064502
9781283064507
9786613064509
6613064505