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Book SynopsisMoving the critical debate about photography away from its Euro-American center of gravity, this title breaks with the notion that photographic history is best seen as the explosion of a Western technology advanced by the work of singular individuals.
Trade Review"
Photography's Other Histories is an extremely interesting and important volume. It challenges both the canonical view of photographic value and importance and, in its cross-cultural concerns, the centrality of Euro-American theoretical constructs of photography. Throughout, the collection successfully argues for a reorientation in the critical debate." —
Elizabeth Edwards, Curator of Photographs and Lecturer in Visual Anthropology, Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
“Photography's Other Histories is a quite remarkable collection of essays on widely ranging photographic practices around the world. In its attention to local cultural inflections to a global technology, to the recuperation of colonial images by their latterday Fourth World subjects, and to the provocative antirealist aesthetics characterizing much postcolonial photography, this volume marks a watershed in both art history, anthropology, and cultural studies.“—
Lucien Taylor, The Film Study Center, Harvard University
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments vii
Introduction: “How the Other Half . . .” / Christopher Pinney 1
1. Personal Archives
Relating to Photographs / Jo-Anne Driessens 17
Growing Up with Aborigines / Michael Aird 23
When Is a Photograph Worth a Thousand Words? / Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie 40
2. Visual Economies
The Making of Professional “Savages”: From P.T. Barnam (1883) to the
Sunday Times (1998) / Roslyn Poignant 55
Navajo and Photography / James Faris 85
The Japanese Colonial Eye: Science, Exploration, and Empire / Morris Law 100
The Changing Photographic Contract: Aborigines and Image Ethics / Nicolas Peterson 119
Supple Bodies: The Papua New Guinea Photographs of Captain Francis R. Barton, 1899–1907 / Christopher Wright 146
3. Self-Fashioning and Vernacular Modernism
Figueroa Anznar and the Cusco
Indigenistas: Photography and Modernism in Early-Twentieth Century Peru / Deborah Poole 173
Notes from the Surface of the Image: Photography, Postcolonialism, and Vernacular Modernism / Christopher Pinney 202
Imagined Journeys: The Likoni Ferry Photographers of Mombasa, Kenya / Heike Behrend 221
Yoruba Photography: How the Yoruba See Themselves / Stephen Sprague 240
Works Cited 261
Contributors 277
Index 279
