Date: Mon, 01 Feb 1999 11:51:25 +1100
Subject: Re: post/photo and Australian Aboriginality


Dear Philippe: 

Two books which take up these issues in the Australian context and also
provide critical accounts of the practice of anthropological photography
are:

Roslyn Poignant with Axel Poignant, Encounter at Nagalarramba. Canberra:
National Library of Australia, 1996 [ISBN 0 642 10665 7]

Judith Proctor Wiseman, ThomsonTime: Arnhem Land in the 1930s -- A
Photographic Essay. Melbourne: University of Melbourne/Musuem of
Victoria, 1996 [ISBN 0 7306 2509 5].

For an interesting account of how photographs taken as part of the
anthropological project of documenting native peoples can be reprised by
those people and used for different purposes see: 

Heather Goodall, 'Working with History: Experiments in Aboriginal
History and Hypermedia' UTS Review, 2.1 (1996): 43-57.

It strikes me as I put this post together that list members may be
interested to read more about postcolonial issues as they play out in
Australia and in relation to indigenous issues here.  Over the last few
year, colleagues and I have prepared large review essays on Aboriginal
identity, art and culture for the English publication Year's Work in
Critical and Cultural Theory (Blackwell) which may privde a useful entry
point for readers new to the field. The takeup of the publication in
Australian libraries appears quite slight and we are not sure what kind
of audience the essays have found elsewhere.  

Please see:

Denise Cuthbert and Michele Grossman. 'Aboriginal Identity, Art and
Culture' Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 4 (1997): 281-316.


--------------------. 'Aboriginal Identity, Art and Culture' Year's Work
in Critical and Cultural Theory 5 (1998):304-368.


-------------------- and Stephen Pritchard. 'Aboriginal Identity, Art
and Culture' Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory 6 (1999):
251-314 (should be out in February).


Denise Cuthbert
Director, Centre for Women's Studies & Gender Research
Monash University
Melbourne, Australia





philippe j alexandre wrote:
> 
> Hello everyone,
> Much has been said and written about the photography of National
> Geographic. I am interested in "postcolonial" photography, meaning how to
> bridge the gap between National Geo. photography and Native photo.? If you
> could help me with books, articles etc...I really would appreciated. The
> only theory that I am aware of is from Susan Sontag and Trinh t.Minh ha.
> Help???
> 
> Philippe
> 
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